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Chapter twenty-eight. The Hangrum Incident |
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(198) On the south of the Barail, a series of the steepest highest spurs possible fanned out from the central peak of Katsingpeo-ki. On the far tip of one of them almost hidden in deep, green woods, was a Zemi village of fifty houses - Khangnam. |
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I had never been there before " V " Force affairs took me. It was so remote, so tucked away, so fortified by precipitous steeps and Naga paths like ladders, that even touring officers rarely came there. It was a lovely spot. One looked down between cool clumps of bamboo to the plains simmering below, or back to the north-west, where the Hangrum ridge and the lower Jenam gorge formed a wildly unfamiliar and Himalayan landscape |
