WAPONG (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What McNally (2006.02.26 Mss: Krem Wapong) understood to represent a rocky shaft 10 m+ which is called Krem Wapong or Surprise Pot or Hallo! Hole if not Boring Stream Cave, characterised Brooks (undated 2006 Mss: Amendments to McNally 2006.02.26 Mss) as a surface shaft and recorded Arbenz, T (2006.05.21 Mss: Abstracts.xls) as bouldery shaft. ETYMOLOGY: The Khasi interjection -wa- denotes surprise, hallo! (SINGH, N 1906: 244) but the noun -ka wah- is a stream, a river while the verb -wah- means to suspend, to hang and the verb -pong- means to bore, to make a hole (SINGH, N 1906: 162).SITUATION 1: McNally (2006.02.26 Mss: Krem Wapong) attempts to make believe this Krem Labbit 1 (Moolesngi) could be reached by following his inadequate and incomplete but nevertheless error-stricken directions which command, literally quoted: Start at standing stones on ridge at N. 25-22-07.5 E 92-32-39.4 [note 1] head down towards cave at GPS above [note 3]. SITUATION 2: Brooks (undated 2006 Mss amendment to McNally 2006.02.26 Mss): Lumthari / Moolesngi area, N/E Shnongrim Ridge. SITUATION 3: According to the recorded GPS position N25°22'07.3”: E92°32'39.4” (±6.9 m WGS84), the first Krem Wapong lies at a distance of about 515 m in a direct line approximately WSW of Lumthari village (N25°22'12”: E92°32'57”: 1000 m asl) and ENE of Moolesngi (N25°22'02”: E92°32'22”) or 180 m and 160 m in direct lines approximately NNW of the first and second Krem Bylliat (Lumthari). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1 (McNally 2006.02.26 Mss): Rocky shaft 10 m+ holes in boulders seen below. May be shaft at east end. PROSPECTS: McNally (2006.02.26 Mss) describes the prospects of finding here cave passages suiting the tastes of sports cavers in search of recreational adventure tourism are clearly good (deleted). Brooks (undated 2006 Mss amendments to McNally 2006.02.26 Mss), on the other hand, judges good. to McNally 2006.02.26 Mss): Lumthari / Moolesngi area, N/E Shnongrim Ridge. SITUATION 3: According to the recorded GPS position N25°22'07.3”: E92°32'39.4” (±6.9 m WGS84), the first Krem Wapong lies at a distance of about 515 m in a direct line approximately WSW of Lumthari village (N25°22'12”: E92°32'57”: 1000 m asl) and ENE of Moolesngi (N25°22'02”: E92°32'22”) or 180 m and 160 m in direct lines approximately NNW of the first and second Krem Bylliat (Lumthari). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1 (McNally 2006.02.26 Mss): Rocky shaft 10 m+ holes in boulders seen below. May be shaft at east end. PROSPECTS: McNally (2006.02.26 Mss) describes the prospects of finding here cave passages suiting the tastes of sports cavers in search of recreational adventure tourism are clearly good (deleted). Brooks (undated 2006 Mss amendments to McNally 2006.02.26 Mss), on the other hand, judges good.