NONGLYNRONG (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to a 3 m climb (Boyes, P W 2000.06.11 nude silhouette sketch) down into a rift cave passage which somehow leads to a relatively low but active stream cave passage with allegedly loose boulders and a very loose bedding plane too that eventually intersects a comparatively larger sized stream cave passage (up to 5 m wide and 4 m high) which was understood to drain flowing water from somewhere in an unidentified direction to somewhere else. ETYMOLOGY: The origin and meaning of the Amwi Khasi cave name was entirely lost to expedition sportsmen who simply recorded in February 2000 -Krem Nonglyngrong- (sic!) instead of -Krem Nonglynrong- and missed that -u nonglynrong- (masculine) or -ka nonglyngrong- (feminine) and -ki nonglynrong- (plural) is the word for one who makes a great show (note 1). SITUATION: The cave entrance was said to lie atan estimated distance of 100 m into the forest on the south side of the road from Nongtalang to Jowai and not only adjacent to the point [at an unidentified position] where the track to Umtren 1 starts (Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong) but also near or, to be precise, in an unidentified spatial relation to the Cave near –>Nongtalang (Boyes 2000.02.19a) christened Leech Hole (after Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong, with black plan on scale 1: 1031; BOYES, P W 2000 s.a.: 9). POSITION: The solitary and unfortunately far from trustworthy GPS position (note 2), which ever has been recorded for the entrance to this cave, indicates a spot that lies at a linera distance of 2.8 km on a bearing of 61° (approximately north-east) from the Inspection Bungalow at Nongtalang (note 3). CULTURAL HISTORY - human use: This small, unstable cave was home to a large colony of bats, of great interest to Andy and Adora, also of great interest for Mr. Min for different reasons. Fortuntely, Andy and Adora could not pass a tight unstable boulder choke and had to return to the surface, which avoided a possible problem when the bat hunt started … We had bat meat for dinner (Boyes, P W 2000.02.18 Mss: Expedition Diary). CAVE LIFE: Noticed on 16th February 2000 had been a relatively large colony of bats (Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong) or Chiroptera without comparison for scale.an estimated distance of 100 m into the forest on the south side of the road from Nongtalang to Jowai and not only adjacent to the point [at an unidentified position] where the track to Umtren 1 starts (Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong) but also near or, to be precise, in an unidentified spatial relation to the Cave near –>Nongtalang (Boyes 2000.02.19a) christened Leech Hole (after Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong, with black plan on scale 1: 1031; BOYES, P W 2000 s.a.: 9). POSITION: The solitary and unfortunately far from trustworthy GPS position (note 2), which ever has been recorded for the entrance to this cave, indicates a spot that lies at a linera distance of 2.8 km on a bearing of 61° (approximately north-east) from the Inspection Bungalow at Nongtalang (note 3). CULTURAL HISTORY - human use: This small, unstable cave was home to a large colony of bats, of great interest to Andy and Adora, also of great interest for Mr. Min for different reasons. Fortuntely, Andy and Adora could not pass a tight unstable boulder choke and had to return to the surface, which avoided a possible problem when the bat hunt started … We had bat meat for dinner (Boyes, P W 2000.02.18 Mss: Expedition Diary). CAVE LIFE: Noticed on 16th February 2000 had been a relatively large colony of bats (Boyes, P W 2000.02.16 Mss: Krem Nonglyngrong) or Chiroptera without comparison for scale.