The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

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into the bank and held there. The mournful
character of the river is accentuated at the landings,
where you witness pitiful scenes caused by the
break-up of family
ties when the coolies have
finished their contract term and return home.
Below Nigri Ting the Dhansiri enters the
Brahmaputra on the left bank, and the Lohit river,
a continuation of the Subansiri, comes in on the
opposite or north bank ;
but it is difficult to
distinguish the tributaries from the re-entering
branches of the river itself, which make many
large islands on the way
down. These branches
sometimes change their course from year to year,
but the Brahmaputra never in this respect rivals
the Mississippi, whose main channel sometimes
changes so as to transfer whole sections from one
American state to another. All the forenoon
the Himalayas
are seen in the
distant north, and
in the afternoon the Naga Hills appear
south.
to the
At Bishnath, where we lay up for the night,
we took on hundreds of cases of Pekoe, Broken
Orange Pekoe, and Pekoe Souchong from the tea
plantations. These extend on the north bank