User:Aunghtike/gallery

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Sun Jun 10 13:12:51 MMT 2018

"Dragging out a log for inspection. It will be noted that the head as bound with cane. Many logs arrive at the head of the chute withsplit ends. They are thenbound with cane, tightened with wedges, to save further damage. This undoubtedly reduced the loss, but still damage is not entirely prevented. Such logs are now taken by the "back lane" a rounabout dragging road, to the bottom of the steeper portion of the chute."
"Ditto: note the water in front on the spray being thrown up."
"Unloading a log off a gindake (cart.)"
"Lower down; one of the cuttings through which the chute passses."
"The 1st bridge over the H Kan at the foot of the 1/2 mile of steep descent. Logs cross the bridge at over 60 miles an hour. Note the trail of smoke and dust behind the log descending."
"Side view of the same bridge; since raised 3 ft."
"The river below the terminus of the chute."
The biggest elephant in Burma, Chit Sayah, Height 9 ft 6 ins girth 14 ft 7 ins at his best. He is now an old elephant, and was much overworked by his former owner and has never fully recovered. the man standing at his head is another very old servant, Sit Wah a wild Karen who has worked 20 years in the district.

Wed Dec 06 15:12:17 MMT 2017

Fri Nov 23 22:53:17 MMT 2012

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