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Chapter three. Second Attack |
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to Chingjaroi; rumour of murder and head-taking |
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Instead of following our previous route north we were moving parallel to it and one range to the east, and along the top of the ridge beyond us ran the Burma border. Among the people who came into camp was a Tangkhul girl from the Somra Tract. She wore huge crystal-disc earrings, so heavy that they had to be held by a hand of thread across the head or they would have torn the lobe. I tried to photograph her; but the people here were wild and shy and ran from the camera. Here, too, Luikai and the porters picked up a rumour that the Tangkhuls of Somra village, just across the border, had killed two Manipuri traders recently and taken their heads, but we never found out whether this was true. |
