Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 74

• November 25, 2016 01:31:14 Sue Bryant

  clock we had a magnificent send off &

  proceeded to a station on the banks of the

  Irawaddi River where we were then taken in

  tugs across the River on the other side called

  Sagaing Shore.

   

  Sat Jan 30 1915

   

  We then took train again for Myitkyina we

  went on through some very wild and desolate

  country & saw some very interesting sights the

  natives on the Route are very wild and un-

  civilized wearing nothing but a dirty Loin cloth &

  armed with spears & large knives & bows & arrows

  & chiefly living in mud Huts & small houses built

  of Bamboo & dried leaves we passed over a very

  large gorge which seemed to be thousands of

  feet deep when you looked out of the Carriage

  windows. It was a very queer sensation as the

  Bridge is only a Skeleton on & you just

  seemed as if you were flying through space.

   

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