Burma image, WA0077. Self, Nung and Lisu recruits, looking out. P.R. When officers such as Green travelled in areas such as the Triangle of what is today Kachin State in Burma they would not usually have a very large retinue with them. As they travelled they would attract various people to follow them en route and would also be accompanied by porters who would be hired. When Green travelled to the Triangle in 1925 he was accompanied by the following: ?My party consisted of myself, Rifleman Pasi La in charge of five other Kachin riflemen of the 10/20th Burma Rifles, a village policeman from Sumpra Bum, my Kachin cook Ma Gam of Sima, a Chinese muleteer, two men sent by the Singgaphkang Agiwa [headman], and two men attached by the Political Officer of Sumpra Bum (Mr. B. Fischer).These last two, Kasha Gam and Lama Nawng, both influential headmen from administered territory, proved invaluable. Kasha Gam had been a guide to the original Putao Expedition. I myself carried a shot gun, and secretly a revolver, but otherwise the party was entirely unarmed except for dahs [swords]? [?Account of a Tour in the Triangle?, Green, 1925, p.1]
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