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Marched early to go to Laisen. Ascended the hill immediately above camp which we found had been the site some years since of a very large Tankol village. 3 houses of same tribe lately built now occupied the spot. View fine from here up and down the I-hang. (In the valley of the Ihang, terraces of water worn stones extend on both sides of the valley about 10 feet between highest level & the 2nd which is now about 25 feet above the bed of the stream. They are well seen just at head of the old lake bed near entrance & in front of the gorge. The valley was once in a high state of cultivation. The old irrigation channels are still to be traced.) We plunged into forest soon after leaving it & got as far as as a Kuki joom where our Naga guide said he did not know the way. The Kuki wood cutters had decamped, but one of our fellows mounting into a tree like a monkey called to them & by dint of shouting & abuse, they came forward out of the forest & shewed the road on ahead, which passed through the new site of their village where only one or two houses were built as yet. Here we had some cold breakfast & thence on along the watershed. About 4 o/c we got as far as a stream with good water & as we got bad accounts of any in the Naga village high up on the ridge & it looked as if setting in for rain, we cleared away grass on a level bit of old cultivation & pitched camp. Later to remain in the place for some days. |
