TB CHIRING

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

In addition to an unspecified Second Entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation) there is also a relatively impressive entrance (Brooks, S J 2003.02.15 Mss Meghdiar2003.doc) that consists of an unspecified first cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation) which gives access to cave like Ronga Cave (Brooks, Simon J & Boycott, Tony [Antony] 2003 personal communication). Here, the waters of an unidentified stream (no name mentioned) enter a relatively large cave passage with unidentified peculiarities. This (solitary?) cave passage descends by and by to a depth of more than 90 m below the first cave entrance, turns around in a curve and climbs back up, more or less parallel to the descending branch of the cave, and eventually leads to a point --some 20 m vertically above the first cave entrance but about 150 m further north-- where nothing was noticed. ETYMOLOGY: What passing immigrants from an island in the oean west of continental Europe interpreted as TB (pronounced like -tea bee- or so) is said to be the Garo name of an unidentified kind of a fruit. For sure, however, the Garo -chi- means water and -chiring- appears to translate as sink or sinkhole. SITUATION: Perfectly no observation whatever has been made concerning the setting of the cave entrance which gave the impression of lying not only at a walking distance of an estimated 3 km approximately north from the village of Khanjoy (Inspection Bungalow N25°13'31”: E091°03'46”: 325 m asl WGS84) but also in an unidentified spatial relation near the village of Nongkulang (in short: Kulang, also: Kelang, Nongkalong N25°14'50”: E091°04'05”: 561 m asl WGS84 modified from N25°14'50”: E091°04'15”: 1840 feet, Everest 1830, Survey of India sheet 78-O/04 edition 1912). CAVE POTENTIAL: Little doubt remains that a less effective but more competent team of cavers can make interesting observations in this strange cave system.