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Treatment of corpses; Hutton and Balfour try eating hornet grubs |
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We started from PHOZAMI at 8.20 a.m., to walk to KERAMI (about 18 miles). A fatiguing 4 miles up-hill at first; then down & up again to a second 'col' & then steadily downhill most of the way. Once over the range the scenery changes & Kassia pines form the jungle, reminding one of home scenery, but for the scattered dwarf palms growing beneath the pines, but patches of the usual jungle intervene. Heard some barking-deer (C. muntjak) & huluks, & saw a few Arakan Hill Partridges. Hot, sunny day, but the trees gave a good deal of shade. We halted three times for a few minutes. After a long march we reached KERAMI village (KALYO-KENGYU tribe) at 1.50 p.m. We passed straight through the village, just looking into one house where a recent (fairly!) corpse was being smoked before being suspended under the rafters until it could be finally dismembered, when the bones would be placed in a large earthenware pot in the granary, the coffin & remains of flesh etc. being thrown away over a small precipice at the edge of the village. This corpse was wrapped in mats & lay in a canoe-shaped dug-out coffin, which was raised above the fire on |
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I had to put on khaki riding-breeches to protect my legs from the black flies, which were maddening. |
