4.20
Onswye
By this time William
Griffith was all anxious to leave the hills, which had lost all their charm,
although the vegetation was still more gigantic and interesting[162].
His party was confined to the road, which was very good, all digressions being prevented by the thickness of the jungles, and then in some places swarms of wild elephants. These animals appeared most numerous about Onswye, near which there was a marshy place literally trodden up by them, and their tracks were so fresh that no traces of his colleague or his coolies could be identified, although they had preceded him only about half an hour.
His party was confined to the road, which was very good, all digressions being prevented by the thickness of the jungles, and then in some places swarms of wild elephants. These animals appeared most numerous about Onswye, near which there was a marshy place literally trodden up by them, and their tracks were so fresh that no traces of his colleague or his coolies could be identified, although they had preceded him only about half an hour.
Robert Pemberton noted that on the Assam side, the inferior
hilly tract, which united the lofty table-land and the plains, was covered with
dense jungle, as far as the village of Oongswye[163], where it became
more scanty.
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