^ The Chindwin
up between the receding water-line and the woods,
making a vivid belt all the way up the curving river.
The P6we whirlpool waits for the unwary just below
Kalewa. It is the most dangerous spot on the Chindwin,
and steamers have often to wait for days at Kalewa
before attempting it. Shut in here amongst the
THE GRAVES QÇ THE CONQUERORS AT KALEWA
mountains, the river attains a depth of sixty-five
fathoms.
Kalewa, famous in the annals of British pacification
in Upper Burma, owes its importance to the fact that
it stands where the Myittha pours its waters into the
Chindwin; and the Myittha is the key to Chinland,
that vast sub-Alpine tract of savagery, which reaches
away, a barrier since the beginning of things, between
Burma and India. From Kalewa as a base, the wild
highlands of Chinland were O conquered, and for years
