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It was now obvious that no further progress could be made either up the river itself or along its banks. They had learned enough about the Abors to realize that the perpetual state of feuding that went on between one Abor village and its neighbour and between one Abor clan and another made it impossible for any visitor to proceed any distance into the hills. What this meant was that the solution to the Tsangpo- Brahmaputra connection would have to be found elsewhere – perhaps in Burma, for if the Irrawaddy could be tracked to its source and shown to be totally unconnected with the Tsangpo then the case for the Brahmaputra would be that much stronger.

Excerpted from page 107 – 108 of ‘A Mountain Tibet ’ by Charles Allen