lywai

Updated: May 10, 2025

The collection of the honey of the wild bee, or u lywai, is a hazardous occupation, the services of some six or seven persons being required, as the combs of this bee are generally built in the crevices of precipitous rocks, and sometimes weigh more than half a maund each.

P. R. T. (Philip Richard Thornhagh) Gurdon - The Khasis