The Nagas

Imphal Chapter one. The Beginning European community in Imphal books Imphal Graham Bower Ursula A European community of less than a dozen lived in the neat Imphal cantonments. Bougainvillea sprawled over their tiled bungalows and beds of snapdragon and lupin edged the lawns. At the lip of the ..
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Imphal Chapter one. The Beginning Sena Kaitel, the Golden Market books Imphal Graham Bower Ursula Every evening in the Imphal bazaar was held the Sena Kaitel, the Golden Market. When the heat was out of the day and the light fell long and warm, files of villagers came padding in with their produce ..
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Chapter one. The Beginning invitation to tour to Ukhrul with Civil Surgeon and wife books Graham Bower Ursula In the ordinary way I might never have gone further than (7) the valley. Life centred on Imphal. Though the forested mountains ran right round the level like a rim to a tray, officers ..
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Taylor Col. Chapter one. The Beginning impressions of the hills, the Tangkhul Nagas and Kukis; Surgeon's work books Taylor Col. Graham Bower Ursula We spent the night in a mud-walled rest-house at the foot of the hills, and next morning entered them. The outer slopes were barren and dry, seamed ..
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Chapter one. The Beginning return to Ukhrul books Graham Bower Ursula When, ten days later, we returned to Imphal, life had changed. There is no describing the fascination of the hills. Neither heat, sweat, dirt nor discomfort could break their hold. It was as though I had re-discovered a world to ..
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Jeffery Mr. trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning Sub-divisions of Manipur and tribal groups books Jeffery Mr. Graham Bower Ursula There wasn't long to wait. Alexa, unable to join the Ukhrul trip, had already arranged for the pair of us to go to (9) Tamenglong and the Barak River with Mr ..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning criticisms concerning women going on tour books Graham Bower Ursula The Ukhrul trip had been short and over bridle-roads. This was to last three weeks, we should be lodged in jungle-camps, and much of the route was over native paths. It wasn't usual ..
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Barak R. trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning trip to the Barak River books Barak R. Graham Bower Ursula But Mr Jeffery ignored all pessimists. We left on the scheduled day, in the worst weather possible, and the station (10) sat back to await our bodies. We climbed into the car, broad-..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning books Graham Bower Ursula The weather cleared in a day or two, and, razor-back after razor-back, the ranges came out of their cloud. Where the Ukhrul side had been dry, with grassy stretches and oaks and pines, the country here was covered throughout in..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning books Graham Bower Ursula The long ridge on which we stood here fell away in eroded knolls and hummocks. On these stood the station, its tin roofs patches of red below us. The S.D.O.'s bungalow was perched on one pinnacle; the rest-house lay below it on..
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Barak R. trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning rafting down the Barak River books Barak R. Graham Bower Ursula We halted a day in Tamenglong, visiting the fort with its spike-studded glacis; and then we marched again, down (10) the long, level spur to the Kabui village, nagabowerP52072.jpg ..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning Mr. Jeffery's views on the hill men contrasted with those of other Europeans books Graham Bower Ursula It was a new world, too, in another way. Jeffery had a friendly, tolerant liking for the hillmen. At any rate, he saw them as human beings. If their ..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning books Graham Bower Ursula Every evening brought a new camp-site and new people crowding it, brown, slim, curious, unhurried, with a strangely unsavage courtesy. Even now I get a catch at the heart from the sharp, clean smell of new huts - the fresh-cut ..
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Kambiron trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning books Kambiron Graham Bower Ursula It was the end of a dream. Already the outer world was near us, Silchar, and Imphal, where Nagas were an obscene joke, and the incredible beauty of the jungle meant nothing. There was this last camp, with the ..
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trip to Tamenglong Chapter one. The Beginning return to Imphal, then to England books Graham Bower Ursula We returned by train up the Hill Section, which everyone in Silchar had been at pains to praise; but it was dust and ashes after the cool Barak. The carriage was a grim and dusty coop. The few ..
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Jeffery Mr. Chapter two. Solo Flight photographs; encouragement to return; invitation to tour Barak area books Jeffery Mr. Graham Bower Ursula (14) Back in England that following summer three things happened which influenced things profoundly. Firstly the photographs I had taken were far better ..
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Hutton J.H. Hodson Chapter two. Solo Flight decision to learn anthropology and to film; contacts J.H. Hutton and Hodson books Hutton J.H. Hodson Graham Bower Ursula Here was my chance, and it was up to me to use it. I should be going through country where very few people went and there was no point..
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Chapter two. Solo Flight return to India books 1938-10-01:1938-10-31 Graham Bower Ursula Autumn brought the Munich crisis but Chamberlain flew. At the end of October I was once more eastbound. I had my list of subjects, I had spent my savings on films. I had found I could lecture, I thought I could..
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Chapter two. Solo Flight after Barak trip, touring alone with filming equipment books 1939-01-07:1939-01-16 Graham Bower Ursula The Barak trip over, I applied to the Political Agent for permission to go into the hills alone to do my anthropological photography. Leave was, after a delay, granted - a..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight books 1939-02-10:1939-04-20 Graham Bower Ursula A month later, with the first few films and notes secured and the preliminary canters safely over, I left on my first real expedition - to Ukhrul, to Nungbi and the Tangkhul country. Next R91528..
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Abung expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight companions books Abung Graham Bower Ursula My companions were two. The first was my servant, Abung. He was a Kabui Naga; small, faithful, furry, and no cook, but he smoothed over more difficulties for me than ever I realized at the time..
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Ukhrul Siruhi Mt. (Sirohi Mt.) expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight Imphal to Ukhrul books Ukhrul Siruhi Mt. (Sirohi Mt.) Graham Bower Ursula In the drought of February, in a pillar of dust, we set out across the dry plain towards Yaingangpokpi and three days later reached ..
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Duncan Mr Nungbi Khunou (Nungbi Khunao) expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight Ukhrul to Nungbi; pottery making at Nungbi Khunao books Duncan Mr Nungbi Khunou (Nungbi Khunao) Graham Bower Ursula We halted a day in Ukhrul to refit and re-organize, and then, on the 13th, primed with..
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Luikai expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight Luikai joins the expedition books Luikai Graham Bower Ursula Unexpectedly that night, in the dusk by the camp-fire, we found a new retainer. His name was Luikai. A small, grimy, snub-nosed Tangkhul, he had run himself into debt over ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight the joy of exploring the hills books Graham Bower Ursula Then down from Nungbi we went, and away to the north, to the hills I had looked at so longingly the year before. It was like a dream now to be walking their rise and fall : the air of ..
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Abung expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight daily routine: dispensary, photographs books Abung Graham Bower Ursula The day's routine was simple. With the first gleam of day-light through the hut walls, in came Abung with a cup of tea. Next we packed the kit and sent off the ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight common diseases and dispensary work books Graham Bower Ursula Photography was no strain. The actual dispensary work was not hard; but the rough conditions and the numbers who flocked to us made it so. The crowd of patients was generally ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight provision of hospitals in Manipur; lack of travelling dispensaries books Graham Bower Ursula It was not that Manipur was unprovided with facilities. The Civil Hospital in Imphal was well-equipped for its size, improvements were added as funds..
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Luchai expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight tiger reported at Luchai camp books Luchai Graham Bower Ursula From village to village, the stock of photographs growing, we crept on east and north. One camp I have cause to remember. We had passed the salt-wells at Mariem, where ..
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Chingjaroi Khulen Chingjaroi Khunao expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight Chingjaroi camp; three settlements at Chingjaroi; headmen books Chingjaroi Khulen Chingjaroi Khunao 1939-02-17:1939-02-22 Graham Bower Ursula Climbing round and over the shoulder of a great hill, we came, ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight halt in Chingjaroi books Graham Bower Ursula It was a good centre, and we halted. The March winds had begun. We came in a gale, and throughout our stay the trees roared, the air was full of dust and flying leaves, and the draughts whistled ..
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Chingjui Mt. expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight climb of Chingjui Hill books Chingjui Mt. 1939-02-22:1939-02-22 Graham Bower Ursula Most of the time was spent in photography and dispensary work, clambering up and down the stepped village, through dust and corn-cobs, with ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight march to Paowi; 'flu books 1939-02-23:1939-02-23 Graham Bower Ursula From Chingjaroi we bore back to the south. The elders said good-bye to us under the bare bauhinias at the ford. Their red blankets showed for a minute on the far slope, ..
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Paowi expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight lepers at Paowi books Paowi Graham Bower Ursula There were lepers here. The compounder found one at the first dispensary. He was a young man, a buck in his twenties. Already the disease showed a little in his face, a thickening here, a ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight Ukhrul to Tuinem; Tuinem weaving books 1939-02-25:1939-02-27 Graham Bower Ursula Then we reached Ukhrul again. I still had 'flu, but money and stores were short, and we could not halt a day. We turned to the west, and, arrived at Tuinem, ..
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expedition in the Tangkhul area Chapter two. Solo Flight back to Imphal books Graham Bower Ursula It was almost over now. From Shongphel we marched down to the plain, the waiting lorry and Imphal; and every step away from the hills was a separate pain. For the first time I had known responsibility,..
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Abung Chapter three. Second Attack leaving Imphal for another trip; new and awkward compounder books Abung 1939-03-09:1939-03-09 Graham Bower Ursula (24) A week later, fortified by experience and stocked up with medicines, we left again. But, on this trip, anthropology took second place. I had ..
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Luikai Chapter three. Second Attack march to Lambui; difficulties with Luikai; on to Nungbi books Luikai 1939-03-10:1939-03-10 Graham Bower Ursula The next day we marched right through to Lambui, a matter of seventeen miles and very steep. At the top of Lambui hill, another of my servants, Luikai -..
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Chapter three. Second Attack embarrasment caused by compounder books 1939-03-14:1939-03-14 Graham Bower Ursula The last morning there broke warm and sunny. The light slanted in through the flimsy walls, spotting the floor and silhouetting the humped jappas. I reached for my tea while Abung, a pint-..
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Chapter three. Second Attack to Chingjaroi; rumour of murder and head-taking books Graham Bower Ursula 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..
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Abung Kharasom Chapter three. Second Attack to Paotong, then Kharasom books Abung Kharasom 1939-03-16:1939-03-17 Graham Bower Ursula The next stop was at the Kuki village of Paotong, where an old lady who came to get liniment was excessively friendly and tried to give me a chaw of tobacco as well ..
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Chinaorang Chapter three. Second Attack Chinaorang of Nungbi taken on as servant books Chinaorang Graham Bower Ursula At Nungbi we had collected another new follower. He was a tall Tangkhul called Chinaorang, and he was without exception the best porter I have ever known. As the now- clean Luikai ..
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Chingjaroi Chapter three. Second Attack called to Chingjaroi for medical help books Chingjaroi 1939-03-18:1939-03-18 Graham Bower Ursula We were to have halted at Kharasom; but at noon on our first rest-day, when the camp was festooned with washing and all the porters dispersed up the village, in ..
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Chapter three. Second Attack birth complications books Graham Bower Ursula It was almost dark when we got there. The house stood tall and shut against a green twilight sky - green with a line of coppery-red over the hazy Manipur plain. The headman spoke at the door. It opened, and we stepped in. A ..
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Chapter three. Second Attack back to camp at night books Graham Bower Ursula The dark of the porch, with a pig snorting disturbed in its bed of chaff. The open street - cool, marvellous after the fetor inside. The compounder, stalking off in the dark to spend the night with his friend the pastor. ..
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Chapter three. Second Attack diarrhoea cases books Graham Bower Ursula At noon next day the compounder returned, looking haggard. The woman, he said, was better. He had given a second injection, and thought she might now pull through. But the Christian village was full of infant diarrhoea; anxious ..
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Chapter three. Second Attack compounder suggests he goes back to Imphal to get more drugs books Graham Bower Ursula We stayed on a day or two, till our patient was out of danger, and then prepared to resume our tour as planned. But the compounder pointed out that we had exhausted most of our drugs,..
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Jessami Chapter four. Black Magic visit to Jessami books Jessami 1939-03-25:1939-03-25 Graham Bower Ursula (32) Our next stage on from Kharasom was to a village called Jessami, on the long tongue of Manipur which juts into Naga Hills. The moment the name was mentioned, the men showed an odd unease...
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Jessami Chapter four. Black Magic witchcraft at Jessami books Jessami 1939-03-26:1939-03-26 Graham Bower Ursula Next morning I held a lone-hand dispensary which was well-attended. At eleven o'clock I was reading in peace, when the door burst open. There was a surge of men, and the hut was suddenly ..
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Jessami Chapter four. Black Magic headman tries to make peace at Jessami books Jessami Graham Bower Ursula For the rest of the day the Tangkhuls continued in a state of alarm and I in a huffed seclusion. The headmen, I think, were holding emergency meetings in the village. The very large cat was, ..
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Liyai (Lai-yi) Chapter four. Black Magic compounder returns; back to Kharasom; smallpox in Lai-yi books Liyai (Lai-yi) Graham Bower Ursula We were still at Jessami when the compounder returned, which he did after an unexpectedly quick journey - expedited, perhaps, by a Civil Surgeon who knew him. ..
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Chapter four. Black Magic decide to send to Imphal for help to go to Lai-yi books Graham Bower Ursula The compounder and I held a hurried conference in the still half-unpacked camp. We checked up on the party's vaccinations. Only he and I were safe; of the others, not one could enter the danger-..
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Chapter four. Black Magic back to Chingjaroi books Graham Bower Ursula Our message despatched, it remained to consider our own plans. It was inadvisable to stay where we were. There was risk of infection to Kharasom, should Lai-yi send over to call us again; they were on tenterhooks to be rid of us..
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Chapter four. Black Magic woman who had had birth complications on previous visit now well books Graham Bower Ursula We asked for our woman patient. Oh, yes, they said, she was better. We went to call. The house looked smaller by daylight, and shabbier, too. It had lost its sinister tinge; the ..
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Chapter four. Black Magic Paowi to Huimi; Chinaorang ill books 1939-04-07:1939-04-07 Graham Bower Ursula From our old camp at Paowi we turned westward and scrambled up and down Naga paths in wild spring weather which grew steadily worse, and from that moment things began to go wrong. We arrived at ..
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Chapter four. Black Magic to Phungam; poor camp books 1939-04-13:1939-04-13 Graham Bower Ursula Next day we climbed up through the misty forests and over the range. Chinaorang was still lame, the men had coughs and chills, and Luikai, glooming along behind me, was (38) prophesying pneumonia for ..
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Chapter four. Black Magic Phungam to Huining; to Ukhrul and back books 1939-04-15:1939-04-17 Graham Bower Ursula We halted next day in only slightly improved conditions and then pushed forward to Huining, the weather, thank goodness, clearing as we went, and the men's spirits picking up with it. It..
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Chapter four. Black Magic to Tuinem by bad path books Graham Bower Ursula There was no through road from there to Tuinem, but a complex of field-paths could be made to bring us there. At first it was fairly plain sailing along paths leading to the cultivation, but presently these began to subdivide..
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Chapter four. Black Magic Shongphel, then back to Imphal and England books Graham Bower Ursula As a final touch, the Kuki watchman at Shongphel rest-house was drunk and fought the men. The next night we were in Imphal. My three months of paradise were over. From a lorry bouncing along the road to ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course making plans to return to the Nagas, thwarted by the outbreak of war books Graham Bower Ursula (40) Arrived home in 1939 I at once laid plans to return in order to continue work among the Nagas. At first everything went swimmingly. My photographs were the best I had ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course return to Assam, winter 1940; refusal of the Political Agent to allow tours in the hills books Graham Bower Ursula On a grey day three months later I sailed after all. All the way out and across India, I still couldn't believe my luck; but there at last was the ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course mental breakdown books Graham Bower Ursula I hadn't realized before that a shock of this kind could stun one physically. I remember almost nothing of the next twenty-four hours. I made my way up to Imphal, though, and saw the Political Agent. He was not unkind; but he..
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Luikai Chapter five. Change of Course Luikai back; arrival of the dog, Khamba books Luikai Graham Bower Ursula And then, in the very middle of it all, came the dog Khamba. Luikai, one of my servants, was back, and hard on his heels had come a pockmarked Tangkhul friend selling dogs in the Naga ..
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Mills J.P. Chapter five. Change of Course visit to J.P. Mills in Shillong; proposal to go to North Cachar to study Nagas books Mills J.P. 1940-01-01:1940-01-31 Graham Bower Ursula In January I went to Shillong to see Mr J. P. Mills, then Governor's Secretary and Director of Ethnography in Assam. He..
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Chapter five. Change of Course Zemi Nagas; leaves for North Cachar books 1940-02-01:1940-02-31 Graham Bower Ursula I had already read Soppitt's monograph on the Zemi Nagas. They were, one supposed, the same sad, shabby lot we had seen in 1938 along the railway. But they were akin to the Kabui, a ..
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Haflong Chapter five. Change of Course arrival at Haflong books Haflong Graham Bower Ursula The S.D.O. met me at Haflong Hill, the railway halt, and we climbed to the town above. It was a pretty, park-like semi-hill station, on a ridge round (43) which the railway ran in a great loop. It was the ..
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Haflong Chapter five. Change of Course Haflong area books Haflong Graham Bower Ursula The subdivision whose centre it was linked mountains to plateaux, the Naga Hills and Manipur to Jowai and Shillong. Haflong itself stood just where the two types joined. To the east of it towered the high Barail; ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course tribes of the district and their history books Kacharis Zemi Mikir Kuki Rangkhol Kuki Bietes Kuki Chongsen Kuki Khelma Kuki Thadou Graham Bower Ursula The Kacharis were the district's major tribe. Once the rulers of the Assam Valley, the Ahoms had driven them from ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course land shortage books Graham Bower Ursula The key to both lay in shortage of land. Though the area involved was large, it was immensely steep, and only a very little of it could be cultivated. Within a few years of the Kukis' coming the pinch was felt by both tribes. ..
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Chapter five. Change of Course 1918 Kuki rebellion and Zemi dislike of Kukis books Kuki Zemi Kacha Graham Bower Ursula In 1918 the Kukis rebelled. Though their revolt was primarily against the British Government, they took the chance, while the hills were out of control, of paying off old scores ..
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Jadonang Gaidiliu Kambiron Chapter five. Change of Course Kacha Naga movement; Jadonang and Gaidiliu books Jadonang Gaidiliu Kambiron 1929-01-01:1929-12-31 Graham Bower Ursula The Kacha Naga movement was odd and interesting. It began at Kambiron. For generations there had been a prophecy that one ..
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Masang of Kepelo Gaidiliu Chapter five. Change of Course Gaidiliu movement books Masang of Kepelo Gaidiliu Graham Bower Ursula Troops were sent out to all the three districts in which the Kacha Naga country fell - Manipur, Naga Hills and North Cachar. Outposts were set at strategic points; searches..
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Mills J.P. Gaidiliu Chapter five. Change of Course capture of Gaidiliu books Mills J.P. Gaidiliu Graham Bower Ursula She had just reached the edge of the Angami country, and there was a risk that the powerful villages round Khonoma might become involved. At that point, the Kuki caretaker of Lakema ..
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Masang Ghumeo Dikheo Gaidiliu Chapter five. Change of Course Gaidiliu's followers take revenge books Masang Ghumeo Dikheo Gaidiliu Graham Bower Ursula But it wasn't quite over yet. Her intimates had escaped the raid - Masang, Ghumeo and Dikheo, to name but three - and one night Dikheo, with ..
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Gumtuing of Nenglo Masang of Kepelo Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi Zemi in Haflong Bazaar; opium; Barail Zemi books Gumtuing of Nenglo Masang of Kepelo Graham Bower Ursula (50) The few Zemi who hung round the bazaar were shabbier, even, than anything on the line - dirty, draggled, huddled up..
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Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi Haflong to Mahur, then Asalu books Graham Bower Ursula (51) We left Haflong at last on March 4th, tramped down a half-made road to the station, and took train up the line to Mahur. Here the Haflong-Kohima bridle-path came out on the railway and there was a ..
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Asalu Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi description of Asalu books Asalu Graham Bower Ursula It was a pleasant camp in park-land, with the site of an old headquarters station on the spur beyond. A wood like a Hampshire beech-hanger hid the village; and in it, thirty or so houses, whose steep-..
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Namkiabuing Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi Namkiabuing joins staff books Namkiabuing Graham Bower Ursula The temporary interpreter the S.D.O. had found for me in Haflong was of little use. The chance came here to replace him by an ex-Government servant, a Zemi named Namkiabuing, who had ..
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Laisong Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi on to Laisong books Laisong 1940-03-08:1940-03-09 Graham Bower Ursula The road was now a rocky shelf along the face of the Barail. It climbed and climbed through tall-trunked mountain forest, (52) till the trees thinned and gave way to scrub and old ..
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Laisong Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi description of Laisong books Laisong Graham Bower Ursula Laisong was a village of perhaps eighty houses. It stood on a spur which sloped from the main range. In the middle of the rocky street there was a widening into an open space - not a square, it ..
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Masang Laisong Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi gathering of Zemi at Laisong; buffalo and mithan killed for a feast books Masang Laisong 1940-03-10:1940-03-11 Graham Bower Ursula There was to be a mass gathering of the Zemi here, with a feast and dance at which they and I might meet one ..
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Chapter six. Introduction to the Zemi dance and feast at Laisong books 1940-03-11:1940-03-11 Graham Bower Ursula By dusk the village hummed. After dark the drums began to thud, first singly, then more and more, as the leaders gathered their teams together. Lights danced up and down the street; and ..
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Namkia Chapter seven. Reconnaissance looking for place to do fieldwork; ambivalence of Zemi books Namkia 1940-03-12:1940-03-12 Graham Bower Ursula (56) The next day I parted from the S.D.O. at the village gate and set off on my own for the first time in a year. The tour was one of exploration, of ..
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Hangrum Guilong Chapter seven. Reconnaissance difference between Hangrum and Guilong books Hangrum Guilong Graham Bower Ursula Take, for example, Hangrum and Guilong - Hangrum in its fantastically dramatic setting on a knife-edged ridge; range after range of the Manipur hills looming blue and green..
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Gaidiliu Dikheo Guilong Chapter seven. Reconnaissance Guilong; Gaidiliu's reincarnation books Gaidiliu Dikheo Guilong 1940-03-24:1940-03-25 Graham Bower Ursula There was no stating of a request, no calm discussion. Down the intruder plumped and claimed my whole attention. If it strayed back to my ..
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Ramgakpa of Gobin Degalang Chapter seven. Reconnaissance S.D.O. agrees to a year's stay to study the Zemi; Laisong chosen as centre books Ramgakpa of Gobin Degalang Graham Bower Ursula Next morning, thank goodness, we left. The S.D.O. agreed to let me stay a year to make a detailed study of the ..
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Chapter seven. Reconnaissance construction of camp at Laisong books Graham Bower Ursula At Laisong the camp on the eyrie was under construction. Workmen swarmed on the skeleton of the big house. From there we passed on southward, to Hangrum again, and Shongkai beyond it; and ten days later, as we ..
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Chapter seven. Reconnaissance strong wind and hail storm books Graham Bower Ursula I woke. The shuttered room was so dark I looked at my watch. It was half-past one - I'd slept for less than an hour. I realized then what had woken me. A wind had risen, the doors were banging, and the bungalow had ..
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Ramgakpa Chapter seven. Reconnaissance devastation caused by hail storm books Ramgakpa Graham Bower Ursula It was at least, as I saw when I got outside, still standing. A crowing and hysterical cook met me just short of the door. He stood there, flapping like a goose; I had to push past him to get ..
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Chapter seven. Reconnaissance bout of fever books Graham Bower Ursula However, hailstorms or no, the films I had planned to use from November onwards were sitting untouched in Haflong. It was time to get on with the job. I set off at once to bring out the rest of my gear. But I hadn't reached the ..
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Chapter seven. Reconnaissance settling in Laisong; Luikai ill; fear of another Zemi rising forces return to Haflong books Graham Bower Ursula A fortnight later we moved in at Laisong on permanent occupation. But the Jessami 'jadu,' or whatever jinx was in (62) operation, had not quite finished yet...
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Chapter eight. Exile. visit to the plateau west of Haflong; decayed Zemi culture books Graham Bower Ursula (63) Quite the most interesting things on the plateau - which was rolling, shadeless and unbelievably hot - were the urns. The Zemi villages were small and disappointing. The people had lost ..
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Bolosan Chapter eight. Exile. urn-fields books Bolosan Graham Bower Ursula The urns, however, were worth the heat. nagabowerP52890.jpg nagabowerP52891.jpg nagabowerP52892.jpg At the Main urn-field, outside the Naga hamlet of Bolosan, several hundred of them stood on a low knoll. The site was ..
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Namkia Chapter eight. Exile. strain of touring; heat; Namkia unbends books Namkia Graham Bower Ursula Touring the plateau was much better than sitting in Haflong, but it was still no picnic. The heat was killing, for the plateau inclined to be low and dry; there were no trees, the camps were ..
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Namkia Chapter eight. Exile. Namkia's character books Namkia Graham Bower Ursula His was an unusual character. A pagan humorist, a Zemi to the backbone, with all the faults and virtues of his tribe and race, he still had an inner core, a moral citadel, which made of him a Hampden. He had an intense..
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Namkia Gareolowa Impoi Asalu Chapter eight. Exile. history of Namkia's family books Namkia Gareolowa Impoi Asalu Graham Bower Ursula His family were of Kabui origin. Migrating northward to Hangrum heaven knows how many generations ago, they had passed on to the Asalu-Impoi group at an early stage ..
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Ngaulong Chapter eight. Exile. return to Haflong; woman fanatic arrested at Ngaulong books Ngaulong 1940-07-01:1940-07-31 Graham Bower Ursula At the end of July we returned to Haflong and found out what had been happening in the Zemi country. The storm-centre had been in Naga Hills, a day or so ..
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Luikai Chinaorang Chapter eight. Exile. temporary settlement in Asalu; Luikai dismissed books Luikai Chinaorang Graham Bower Ursula The S.D.O., however, thought Laisong too far away in case of sudden trouble, so for the time being we settled down in the leaky Asalu bashas and started to make them ..
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Chapter eight. Exile. tigers books Graham Bower Ursula Chinaorang stayed on some weeks. He mixed well with the Zemi, and never minded being ragged, as Luikai had done. It was a casual jape on him - Namkia faked tiger-tracks round the water-hole one morning, so that Chinaorang, arriving, gave one ..
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Namkia Chapter eight. Exile. Namkia's practical joke books Namkia Graham Bower Ursula On the chosen evening he complained of fever and retired early to the spare hut. As soon as the cook and the others had settled down for the night, he slipped down into the high grass by the cookhouse, thrashed ..
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