Regional Geography
' The Monsoon Lands'— 'India '
12-' The Indo-Chinese Borderlands'
J. N. L. BAKER , Lecturer in Geography in the University of Oxford, and Sir
GEORGE DUNBAR , Bt.
This afternoon J. N. L. Baker will introduce to listeners Sir George Dunbar , the soldier-explorer. Sir George was a member of the 1912 expedition that set out to explore the source of the Brahmaputra. He has many interesting stories to tell. For over three years he was in the hills north of Assam. And all this time, as he will explain, he was never really dry once ! At a place called Cherrapungi the depth of rain over a period of twelve months was more than seventy feet. In the course of his duties Sir George learnt a great deal about the hillmen-tribes who can count only up to forty on their fingers and toes and have to use little bundles of sticks to calculate any further.