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Sayers, D., 2017. Climbing Mt Saramati: from Myanmar and India with travel on the Chindwin. Kibworth, Matador
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Sayers, David. 2017. Climbing Mt Saramati: From Myanmar and India with travel on the Chindwin. Kibworth, Matador. -
Expedition Oliver Milton in 1959 (from unpublished diary), with Richard Estes. – Mt Saramati between Nagaland and Burma. - The 8 mile trail to Langnawk, at just 4920 ft, was steep. – In an open hut in the village “square” were numbers of horns, human skulls and skulls of animals. Most interesting was the skull of a rhinoceros, tied by a piece of cane to one of the posts. The lower jaw was missing and the only person who could tell them anything about its history was an old man who must have been over 70. He said that it was obtained in the area during his father’s time so that would have made it some half century old. No one could recall ever seeing any rhino in the vicinity, but this was not surprising because hill cultivation had ruined almost 80% of the hillside and any thick virgin forest survived only on the very steep sides gorges impossible to cultivate. // Milton thought it would take 15 days to walk to Makware, the last village north of the pass to the east of saramati. – As to the rhino, it seemed there were some still south of them in the Laisai (12), and there could also be some in the Saramati vicinity coming over from the Shilloi reserve in Nagaland. [Laisa Ga is a village in Khamti administration]
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