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on which the house itself stood was terraced. The grounds 

 were maintained in excellent order by a gang of short- 

 sentence convicts, on whom imprisonment did not appear 

 to press very hardly. 



This park proved an excellent collecting-ground for birds, 

 especially for Bulbuls, Honeysuckers, and Flowerpeckers, 

 which seemed to concentrate on the isolated trees growing 

 there ; so that they could be easily shot, and, what was more 

 important, could be retrieved with much greater ease than 

 in heavy jungle. Game, too, was abundant in the vicinity, 

 and on one occasion a Kyang (Cervulus muntjac) strolled 

 across the lawn with a pack of convicts in hot pursuit. 



Hard by is one of the most famous waterfalls of the 

 Peninsula, the Trang River falling over a broad shelf of rock 

 for a perpendicular distance of about forty feet. The fall is 

 not vertical, and the scene embowered in heavy jungle on 

 both sides is one of extreme beauty. 



Chong is actually at the foot of the main range, and 

 a walk of six or seven miles along the road, excellently 

 engineered but now largely destroyed by heavy rains and 

 landslips, leads to the summit of the pass, which cannot 

 exceed four or five hundred feet, dividing the State of Trang 

 from the East Coast State of Patelung. The road at the 

 summit passes through a narrow defile, which is guarded by 

 a heavy loopholed timber fence and gate. A long day's 

 journey brings the traveller to the Lower Patelung, and 

 to the Inland Sea, but the route, which we have not as yet 

 traversed, has been described by Annandale. 



During our stay at Chong we ascended a mountain in the 

 vicinity probably about 3000 feet in height, and obtained 

 an excellent view of the higher mountains of Lakon to the 

 north, which are over 5000 feet and as yet entirely un- 

 explored. The hill we visited was, however, very unproductive 

 in birds and yielded only one of any interest, viz. Stachyris 

 davisoni. 



After our departure from Chong our collectors visited 

 several localities in the N.E. portion of the State towards 

 Lakon, but for various reasons were unable to ascend any of 



