FAUNA AND FLORA, RATBURI, PETCHABURI. 145 
pouring rain, the descent to the valley not being easy on the slippery 
clay, and the flooded stream down which our path lay was barely 
negotiable. On arrival at the big river, one of a very noisy flock of 
Tickell’s Hornbill ( Anorrhinus Tickelli) was obtained, the species 
apparently having a much wider range than supposed by Oates, who 
records this bird only from one valley near Moulmein, about 200 miles 
to the North of this point. 
On arrival at Elephant’s ‘Tusk depot. I was relieved to find that 
all other parties had completed and returned to headquarters camp 
some time previously. Tae canoe men on rice transport told me that. 
50 °/, of the bamboo rafts starting from Klephan’ts Tusk had smashed 
up in the rapids, and I therefore decided to cut my Way out, using the 
canoes for the sick. The canoe men picked up four starving and raft- 
wrecked Chinese coolies on the way down, two of whom died after 
arrival at headquarters camp. 
Of the 400 men engaged on the work in the Petchaburi hinter- 
land, 7°/, died of malaria in the district, and 3°/, from other causes, 
cholera, small pox, suicide and drowning ; and looking back on the 
awful difficulties experienced in that country during the monsoon, | 
am surprised that the percentage was not greater. Of my own coolies 
none died of malaria, and this [ attribute to their having plenty of pig 
and monkey meat when the rice failed, and to a daily dose of 5 grains 
of quinine, 
