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IN MYSTERIOUS, LAOS. HUMOURS OF MOTORING IN INDO-CHINA.

[BY STELLA BENSON 17 THE STAR."|

Vinh is the diving board for those who wish to plunge into the strange depths! of Laos, the least-known province of Andle-China, and surely one of the most primitive provinces in Asia,

At Vinh the Tet-Ammanite New Yene -hid Legun. We drove out of Vinh to the thunder of firecrackers. The streets were already petalled with pink spent crackers: scarlet, und gold; prayer-papers | wore on every door and native officials in fine embroidered were being driven about in tiny victorias elad coachmen to pay New Year calis,

TOWARDS. THE MOUNTAINS-2 But we faced towards the mountain that divide Amnant from Laos. The road through Laos was only opened, to wheel- ed tralle a few weeks ago, and, like all young things worthy of their youth, has a reputation for being temperamental But our hired car, caked with the mud pages, driven by a little goblin of an Annamite chauffeur...and further tanned by a small, patient native mechanic in blue, looked adveáfurous enough and powerful enough to swim rivers or seale precipices.

At. Brat sight it seems that any car travelling in Indo-China mast of neces site he amphabions Between Vinh and the mountains there were mystically 'enough-seven, rivers, and not que bridga¦ antong the seven, "

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INDO-CHINESE FERRJEM, On every Info-China roail the dis agreeable little sign lecking like the letter upside-down is as familiar to the a traveller as the suicidal chicken or the Elefant-marish pupps-That-ignon

BAC, or ferry. A. bac in Indo-China usually consists of a partially submerged raft roughly put together and marned either by women wearing brown robes and hinek hoods warmounted by the national straw tea-tray hat, or else by men wearing nothing more than small tartan dusters round their middles.

Home bacs are poled along by men who walk along the vessel's bulwarks bent in the position of ambalat hairpins, some ace pulled with ropes, some are pushed! by the crew, which throws itself into the river for the purpose and some are row- ed with slender bamboo rods that offer the least possible resistance to the water. Every bac avoids, as far as possible, the slightest appearance of speed Or efficiency. Each bac embarks from tha foot of a steep and precipice, and the motorist's first thought on neering gin gerly down the chute at a broken kang- plank all skew is a feeling of tempered relief that at least his tow is as well pro vided for as his means allow

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But our goblin chauffear hesitated at nothing. Danger of death by drowning was more to him than danger of death by, falling over precipices into the jaws of tigers. With one irascible yell of the horn he skidded masterfully on to each bac, the whole river quaking with the impact; the whole ferry's crew leap ing from under his wheels. Stopping his car nonchalantly, on the only plank which could be expected to bear, its weight, the chauffeur would remove, un invitéd, the hat of the nearest ferryman or ferrywoman and use it during the transit as a means of conveying water from the river to his radiator. On land. ing he would throw the.. has into the mud.

These are the manners that make things run ancethly in Indo-China.

There are ricefields nearly all the way from Vich to the foot of the mountainy At first the fields are neatly and exactly squared, but presently wildness begins to thrust through like the first note of Rocks and passion in serene musie ragged trees interrupt more and more the heat chequered pattern of industry. Until after the seventh river, the moun- tains stamp out the mild busy works of

men

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The mountains are dressed in thickly woven forest. Even upon the faces of the precipices where, one would imagine, no tree could find roothold, trees are matted together. Long strong creepers droop down, and on these ropes, it reets, the forest swings itself up the cliffs. The road was like a tunnel with occasional splendid windows, through which, a great world looked in, a pea cock-coloured world, sewn with fat silver rivers. Looking up, the slopes through the steep trees, one could see no glimpse of sky, only a strange tangled darkness, an infinity of leaves that could never see thesun.

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but not continuously. Out of the dark much more sly than Chinese faces, rAMS- jungle tunnels we slid across rivers, tumen peculiar to themselves, yet Chinese creaking on ephemeral, and dubious they were, more or less; a sophisticated basketwork bridges that dipped under people living in hust rooted to the ouf weight almost into the milky charm ground. The frail, plaited palmicaf water. As we climbed nearer to the bonses of the Lautiens were built high up highest ridge the trees become larger on stilts.

To save them from tiers, said our. and more individual, the undergrowth little mechanic, but it did not seem less thick. And in this way we could

likely. A sneeze from a tiger would blow better see, the haryans.

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I hereby transfer to the banyan-tree 2 large part of the allegiance I have The people were obviously of Indian hitherto devoted to the eucalyptus. The stock-brown, small handsome, with banyan trails" thin. pale" threads to the large, patient eyes. The women word ground, and these grow into pillars sup their hair swept back into a loose knot: porting the parent tree and, inheriting at the nape of the neck; the well-to-do į the bartyan tradition, in the course of wrapped their bodies round in brilliant ages stand alone as independent trees. striped silks, waven in the province: Sometimes these pillars stand astride these hung like Jong, narrow skirts to Lover ares; sometimes they group them the ground; white shifts enclosed their selves close together. Sometimes they shouldera and breasts under gay shawls. even partially merge themselves with the Both men and women often wore bright parent trunk, and then they look like strips of cotton carelessly wrapped round enormous draperies falling to the ground their heads.

--like the draperies of great stone Greck Men who wore anything on their beads goddessus,N

politely removed it as we passeil. They Across the border of Laos we were abusually looked shocked to see me and ones among people new to us.

squatted down on their haunches to take The Arianites we had left behind us a good look. But we were no scouri were obviously related to the Chinese slighted than we were gone. and had the pale skin and narrow eyes we were used to faces not so clever and (Continued at fost of nest column).

More wild beasturcoming into our jangle, perhaps they sighed as the roar of our possing died away.

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