The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

diaries kept by Ursula Graham Bower on visits to Manipur and North Cachar between 1937 and 1940

caption: first day at sea
medium: diaries
date: 26.9.1937
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: (3) Sunday, 26th Sept.
text: Extra hour in bed owing to clocks being put forward. Slight sea; hardly any movement. A very long, dull day. Arranged two places at doctor's table. Passengers all dull as hell. Doctor young, Scot, amusing. Other nymphs at table missionary, French-Egyptian (?) nursemaid, young mother (not bad), Mrs Whithouse.