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Burma image, WA0358. Chinese caravan going to Kutkai.
'China men camping on the road side. In April thousands of China men pass on their way back to Yunnan. They collect in bands on the frontier near Nam Hkam, to protect the transfrontier Atsis' [Green's note]
*****The first stage of the journey into the heart of the Kachin hills at Sinlum Kaba follows the main trade route from Bhamo to Tengyueh in China. Numbers of Chinese caravans were passing up and down, and those travelling back to China were laden with cotton and ribbon-iron. Mule transport in this part of Burma is exclusively in Chinese hands. Kachins never own or hire mules. There is a great and increasing demand for mules, and breeding would certainly be profitable if conducted high up in the hills above the surra zone. The cost of transport has gradually risen by four annas and eight annas at a time, until the hire of a mule, which used to be a rupee a day, was on this occasion Rs 4-8-0, and is sometimes even Rs5. Many mules die of surra and a comparatively insignificant number were at this time (December 1918) employed on the Chin Hills Expedition, but if the cost of transport rises much more, it will seriously prejudice frontier trade. ['Races of Burma', Major C. M. Enriquez, Meiktila, 1920, p.19]
*****The Kutkai plateau is one of the most attractive places in Burma. Imagine an almost limitless expanse of undulating turf-land, with distant hills, bold in outline, strung along the horizon on all sides. That is the Kutkai plateau - treeless, grassy, undulating, perhaps a trifle monotonous, but truly beautiful, and richly green. The population is sparse. Palaung villages occur at long intervals, their fields making red patches on the grass land. The Palaungs breed ponies, although the plain is not free from surra; but a little farther on at 6000 feet Chinamen raise mules safely. ['A Burmese Arcady', Major C. M. Enriquez, London, 1923, pp.157-158]
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'China men camping on the road side. In April thousands of China men pass on their way back to Yunnan. They collect in bands on the frontier near Nam Hkam, to protect the transfrontier Atsis' [Green's note]
*****The first stage of the journey into the heart of the Kachin hills at Sinlum Kaba follows the main trade route from Bhamo to Tengyueh in China. Numbers of Chinese caravans were passing up and down, and those travelling back to China were laden with cotton and ribbon-iron. Mule transport in this part of Burma is exclusively in Chinese hands. Kachins never own or hire mules. There is a great and increasing demand for mules, and breeding would certainly be profitable if conducted high up in the hills above the surra zone. The cost of transport has gradually risen by four annas and eight annas at a time, until the hire of a mule, which used to be a rupee a day, was on this occasion Rs 4-8-0, and is sometimes even Rs5. Many mules die of surra and a comparatively insignificant number were at this time (December 1918) employed on the Chin Hills Expedition, but if the cost of transport rises much more, it will seriously prejudice frontier trade. ['Races of Burma', Major C. M. Enriquez, Meiktila, 1920, p.19]
*****The Kutkai plateau is one of the most attractive places in Burma. Imagine an almost limitless expanse of undulating turf-land, with distant hills, bold in outline, strung along the horizon on all sides. That is the Kutkai plateau - treeless, grassy, undulating, perhaps a trifle monotonous, but truly beautiful, and richly green. The population is sparse. Palaung villages occur at long intervals, their fields making red patches on the grass land. The Palaungs breed ponies, although the plain is not free from surra; but a little farther on at 6000 feet Chinamen raise mules safely. ['A Burmese Arcady', Major C. M. Enriquez, London, 1923, pp.157-158]
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