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jDlaeed on edge in front and tied round the leg in some way that prevented 

 them all from slipping down. In walking or running these made a pretty- 

 loud tinkling as they touched each other. 



To-day the belles of the village came out strong, they seemed for once 

 to have washed themselves and donned all the finery available. As I went 

 about with an interpreter, looking at the weaving and little sticks used as 

 a loom, and asking all sorts of questions, they seemed as much amused as 

 we were, and when laughing, the whole costume seemed to join in, the 

 nose-studs in particular. I could hardly help every now and then thinking 

 what a sum one would realize as a model at the Academy life-class, especi- 

 ally some of them who were remarkably well made and not bad-looking. 

 The children, as a rule, were not at all prepossessing, and had heads and 

 faces round and uninteresting as a turnip, the nose a little round knob, 

 and little eyeholes as in a mask, utterly destitute of modelling. The 

 men's costume was limited to the cane crinoline and a jacket without 

 arms, occasionally a necklace and topi with hair or feathers ; but they 

 do not dress themselves as gaudily as the women, or as the Naga men 

 further to the west. 



The looms I saw were simply two little upright sticks of any sort 

 driven into the ground, and one loosely tied across the offside, to which the 

 Avoof was wound, another similar one being in front and looped to a 

 band, against which the weaver leaned back to pull it tight. A huge flat 

 paper-knife seemed to complete the arrangement, being some four inches 

 wide it, when placed on edge, opened out the strings enough to allow a 

 little ball of thread to pass through ; letting the said paper-knife lie flat 

 seemed to open the strands the other way, and the little ball was rolled 

 back again : with this they wove cloths with a simple pattern, which were 

 from a foot to eighteen inches wide. Several were weaving men's cloths 

 of the strong bonrhea, 5 feet long by 3 inches wide, and with ornamental 

 ends. 



After an early breakfast at 9 o'clock I started with several men for the 

 summit of the hill, and after a steep climb reached it and found it had been 

 jhumed about two years before, so we set to work and in an hour cleared 

 off a good deal, enough to enable me to see round and get bearings. The 

 view was a fine one, bounded on the north by the Mishmi Hills, north-east 

 by Dupha Bum 15,000 feet, well snowed down to 2,000 feet or so from the 

 summit ; east the Phungan Bum, 11,000 feet, was well seen, but had no 

 snow on it, the distance about 53 miles ; thence round towards the south 

 I saw the eastern prolongation of Patkai, with the depressions in the 

 range where the old Burmese route crossed, at probably 1,500 or at the 

 least 1,000 feet lower elevation than the present pass of 3,500 feet. Over 

 and beyond this marked depression could be seen a rather high group 



