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hill-roads at all events. Working on daily labour
he will willingly do eight or ten hours’ hard work a day,
attacking a piece of rockwork or jungle-cutting with
a furious energy, and signalising his success over
obstacles with shouts of delight. He requires, however,
to be handled
c a re fu lly , sympathetically,
and
with perfect jusBB
tice, or he is absolutely
intractable.”
O n a k n o l l
above a streamlet
there is the military
post, and a sentry
walks to and fro
before it through
the hours. One
can see the gleam
of his bayonet a
long way off in the
noon s u n l i g h t .
K A CH IN WOMEN AN D G IR LS
The silver flash
of a heliograph on the hill links the settlement with
the outer world. The air on a spring day is cool and
mellow, the sun a friendly neighbour. But the nights
are chilly, and towards dawn a great cold clutches the
earth and quickens the air. The view from here
stretches away on the west to the plain country, where
the Irrawaddy winds in great loops and folds of silver
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