Chapter - 6

Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star

M. Lilla and C. Bishop Barry

Summary of the article

This essay is written by two American geographers, M.LILLA and C.BISHOP BARRY. In 1971 they visited the hills of western Nepal and lived there for fifteen months to find out how the people in that area lived. It describes the hill people, who walked to Nepalgunj to buy and sell different things. For example, it describes a Chhetri who asked them to look at her husband. The geographers also met a group of man, who was going to sell Shilajit.

When they walked through the Sal forests of the hills near the Terai, they noticed that trees were being chopped down and that the forest would soon disappear. One of the geographers talk to the local people about this but they said that they had to chop down the trees to feed their animals.

When they arrived in Nepalgunj they stared in the arrangement at many things they had not seen while they were in the hills. They also watched the hill people buying a variety of items. From the traders, one of the porters, karma spent all his buying distillery equipment. He hoped to become rich by making alcohol in Jumla.

They returned to Jumla to finish their project. They had learned much in Nepal. For e.g. they had learned that hill people needed to form as well as do other activities to survive. They also observed that people in the hills were always moving around.