The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

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Utoretipers of the EfinaIayas-Tlle
Dion3ias OF the AndaEnan ISLANDS
Ar7ooe the Roof Dueilers-Wos,en
With More Than One Husband
2.rhe,oYs' Halls and Maidens'
tnarrDlcnts-The Nilgiri Hills and
+h, fire Waikers-Anfong the
fG-ilans.
urlnrrfsht. 1910. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
DELHI, 1910.
Few realize that we have here in
7,sf, ~reoDles Of whom the world
Ira1s nothing and countries which
a.. FOOT Of white man has never
trod.'
These were the words of Mr.. Rob
a~se.n. secretary of and
;o4r.-rv in The viceroy's cabinet We
rr4r. sitting together in his office i'll
rar..-ra. and had been chatting about
the extension Of the railways, tele-
e-.1htes and postofices of the Indian
~e2.1.re. The secretary continued:
Take the Brahmaputra, that
ra;-htv river which enpties into the
can1es near where it flows into the
Pay Of Bengal. It is only lately we
have learned anything about its
source. and today there is a region
along its banks Of which we know !
nothing. The country there is a
very no mans land. 1t is inhabited
tv h~aIf-naked savages who are pro-
f~esslonal head hunters. They use
poisoned arrows, ana We pay them
tribute Tor letting US alone. We have
I.r.r attempted to conquer them"
midas No Mans Land.
"n~1 Just whore is this territory"
I asked.
-l5 lies near the northern borders of
Assam in the foot hills Of the Hima-
Iavas. It is not far from the tea dis
tr.2ts. and there are tea factories with
their electric lights and modern ma
chtnerv upon its very edge. You may
travel ten miles from such surround
:1gs and reach localities where your
life is not safe for a moment. The
country is Wild and rugged, and the
land drops almost percipitously from
an altitude Of Two miles above the
sea down 10 a thousand feet or SO.
TEe descent Of the Brahmaputra at
that point is such that we believe
there must be q great falls there. We
nay have hidden in those jungles a
second Niagara or a Zembesi Falls.
Bur no one knows; for SO far, no
one has explored hat part of the
river"
And YOU say hat the mighty Brit
Isl nation pays tribute to these saw
ages: That is an odd policy for the
Strongest Of the European powers, is
Il 1ot?'
The cabinet minister swallowed the
laCterE without winkiug. He replied:
ihe amount of the tribute is n,th-
ing. We pay it because it is cheaper
70 pay than 10 fight. We began it
when We took possession of the coun-
u, AT that time these sayages were
n@A-ng periodical raids upon the vii
a@seS OF the lOwlands. They would
s@oop down from the hills and kill Il
=" people, carrying away as much
a0ot as they could. They usually got
%tgN or 50, d few goats, a brace of
oHvA7hS and household effects worth
comparatively little. When we took
possession We called the savage chiefs
~ & conference and asked them how
rot5 IHeH made out of these annual
fr~. iheH tOld US. and together we {
en- 7u up their stealings for the past s
nat+o }Vars and estimated that thew
1a@G mem on the average about
Iit1a lUires per annum. That is a
rr| aS more than $500. We thereupon {
it,0poSed To them hat if they would
than "auFes alone we would pay {
twatr MS much at a fixed time every
and months They agreed to do so
tract HS lar have kept their con-
Season come at the appointed {
nfrbstl)r their money, and, not
proDar1" mat h value of The I
nateris9ir IN the villages nearby has
Satisfied W. Increased. they seem still
~pnn[ta with their $500" I
Of kaanii99 "ot that an undignified way &
We l4g the Deace?" 1 asked. t
best T421l IN this instance it is the :
t-rrf @ + be to send troops into the {
all the We should have to fight V
out thu Cme. and without we wipei I
ttauors 1a,4ses it would mean a con-
%eo oa[4 is a i 1a'2gfS and n o1r m nh9 :
from ba s5 saot with poisoned arrows c
Gould Kin M. The trees. The a
Ing able +h'@ny Of us without our be-
o9eS not NII them, and the game Y
This f 5en hacAwoods of INDIA Ind aa"''e o
ttackwoodIN eyes one a peep into the a
" world f '' india, This peninsula r
"" itself, Hindustan has