Scope and Contents 153 x 113 mm. A view looking over the corrugated iron roofs of the military post towards a mist filled valley. Built on the site of the village of Toklaing during the Chin disturbances of 1889, the fort became one of the headquarters for British military activity in the Chin Hills. In its early days its defensive position was not strong:'The fort was in reality no fort at all, but consisted of houses, scattered on the side of a hill and surrounded by an abattis of kaing-brush and...

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153 x 110 mm. Showing the thatched houses of the village spread out across the hillside. Rawvan was situated on the Kan-Haka mule track, eight miles south-east of Yokwa. The military post is high on the hill in the right background.

Scope and Contents 152 x 112 mm. A view looking down on the rest house, a corrugated iron hut with thatched roof, with valleys and hills beyond. With porters and pack mules on the path in the foreground. The Chin village of Yokwa lies about 30 miles south-east of Haka, and was reached by the Kan-Haka mule track:'Yokwa is the chief village of the tribe and was once strongly fortified, but the stockades are now in ruins. Water is plentiful and there is good camping-ground just below the village on the...