THINKRA (Cave below)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A rockshelter or cave under big rock in gorge in which Ursula Graham Bower took picnic on her march from Kangreng (note 1) to Thinkra (note 2), a place poised on another sandbank at head of the Bara Hatea. Sandbank lower down avalanching into the river with loud bangs all the time, and making water very foul. […] Bara Hatea camp failed to materialise, so we go up to Talbung [note 3] from here. Went down gorge. Very large boulders and much scrambling [… and] picniced in cave under big rock in gorge (Graham Bower, U (1937-1940 Mss: Diaries kept on visits to Manipur and North Cachar: 23.11.1938). Compare the cave near –>Longkaiphum (Lonkaiphun).A rockshelter or cave under big rock in gorge in which Ursula Graham Bower took picnic on her march from Kangreng (note 1) to Thinkra (note 2), a place poised on another sandbank at head of the Bara Hatea. Sandbank lower down avalanching into the river with loud bangs all the time, and making water very foul. […] Bara Hatea camp failed to materialise, so we go up to Talbung [note 3] from here. Went down gorge. Very large boulders and much scrambling [… and] picniced in cave under big rock in gorge (Graham Bower, U (1937-1940 Mss: Diaries kept on visits to Manipur and North Cachar: 23.11.1938). Compare the cave near –>Longkaiphum (Lonkaiphun).