The story "travel the road " is basically a narrative of an old memory of the Adi tribe , living in Assam. The memory deals with the incidents related to the "migluns" i.e. The British.

The story about the village that they knew was long ago in 1911 a British officer named Noel Williamson set out to explore the villages along the path of the river. But at the end he died and so did his friend, a tea garden doctor named Dr. Gregorson and 47 sepoys and coolies. The assumptions related to this incident are:

1. Communication gap between the villagers and the officer. The tribe feared that he may bring troops to destroy them.

2. Some say that a man whom the white man had once insulted , followed him to Komsing (village) and killed him.

3. Another version talks that the massacre was due to a scandal - a story of seduction of a tribal woman and a white man- because of which on seeing a white man the villagers lost control.

All these were just stories, the truth lay in front of the tourists. The moshup- the village long house- had been prepared for the stay of the tourists and so was a fire lighted in the anticipation that they would be curious enough to listen to their stories, narrated by the miri- the shaman (witch doctor). For many nights the shaman had been narrating to them stories about their origin, the sword of 5 metals that ignited the bonfire of the villages along with the ponung dancers adding a flavour to his narratives. Tonight he was going to sing about the migluns and the stories related to them and the tourists were lucky enough to join the village people to listen to the real story. It was named " travel the road".

With this the miri ends his story telling and bids farewell to the tourists as well as the villagers (specially the dancers). But at last before going he tells the tourists the significance of this story telling. He says that it is an art that is practiced by people like him from lineages, so that the people of the tribe do not forget about their past and know how their journey of life from keyum (nothingness) to how they have come to be born under stars has been. He then mentions about the beads on his hat which would be removed by his wife, when he reaches home. These beads of the dumpling accompany every shaman during his travels of long distance and protect him from misstep and from faltering the narration.

A white man had once entered the village of Komsing with lots of gifts. The people accompanying him mocked at a man by saying that looking at his face even the white sahib would not have sympathies for him. This raged the man- who was from another village but of the same tribe - and he killed the officer. Now when the British officials heard about this, they sent the troop which captured people and sent them to the black waters. A man from the village noticed the approaching troop of armed soldiers and informed the villagers. Hence upon the arrival of the troop the villagers were ready with their symbols of peace-a broken arrow, a bent sword and all of them cut down their bow strings. Pitying at the sight of the people, the commander ordered them to build a memorial in favour of the so called British "martyr". Once the memorial was built the British people left the village, accompanied by the man who killed the officer (who was later sent to black waters). But, till date the memorial stands as such and the villagers see it with great respect.

Another incident talks about a couple who fell in love with each other, irrespective of their backgrounds. The man was a British, who was assigned the work of mapping the villages along the river but had only found out his live for an Adi tribal girl. The result of the rendezvous was a bamboo stake through the hearts of the lovers, but they had no revulsion to the act as they already had tasted everything. They had experience of thrill of unison.

"then the miri took the road out of Komsing under a sky bristling with stars" with this the narrative ends.