boatman

Oo Oo had to retire from his job as a boatman when he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed.

Many worked as labourers on farms or at the local iron works with others having jobs including as laundry women, boatmen - and one was a local postman.

Despite his pleas, the boatman refused to allow Fayaz to bring the baby's body with them.

"We've got damselflies and dragonflies, little water boatmen, whirligig beetles, water scorpions and because of all of them, we get all the birds that feed off them," he says.

The boatman frowned as he rowed up to the shore.