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I doubted this statement, I accepted it, there being no immediate 

 hurry for the cuttings until I returned to Bhanio. However, on 

 revisiting the village ; seeing no one near at hand to ask permis- 

 sion of, I reluctantly acted on my own responsibility, and being a 

 rather hot day, my interpreter recommended that the branches 

 should be carefully stowed away in the cabin, to protect them from 

 the sun ; his idea was concealment no doubt, but I fear some- 

 thing more than sol's rays prompted the suggestion'; as nothing 

 more was heard on the subject, I conclude the operation was 

 a success, and that neither the people nor the trees missed 

 the limbs we took away. Both specimens were growing on an allu- 

 vial deposit resting on gravel ; the finer tree measured — 



Height ... 



Circumference of main trunk 



Ditto including aerial roots 

 Area covered by crown branches 



Circumference of three aerial roots taken at five feet 

 from the ground ... 



178. At 4 p.m. we made fast for the night at the Shan village 

 . _. . of Sinekau, and were most hospitably 



Shan village of Sinekau. • -i i 1 1 i i i i t 



received by the head-man, who placed 

 his house at our disposal, and rendered all possible assistance in 

 providing for our wants. The population were entirely of the agri- 

 cultural class, and apparently well to do. The village was sur- 

 rounded by a double bamboo stockade in capital condition, and 

 had been unmolested by the Kakhyens for the last two years. 

 The principal cause for dissatisfaction was evidently the oppression 

 committed by the subordinate officials, whose only means of sub- 

 sistence would appear to be the pickings they derived in the dis- 

 charge of their duties. We spent the evening in an excursion to 

 the Jheel west of the village, and managed to bag a few snipe and 

 teal ; there were also large numbers of other water-fowl, including 

 geese, Carlo nudigular, Pelican, Terns, Tulica atra, water-hens (Gal- 

 Umdajavanica), and Nycticorax grisesus, white paddy-bird (Herodias 

 allia), and ibis. 



The aqueous vegetation was principally represented by the 

 Nelambiacece order ; I also noted Myrophyllum tetrandrum, and a 

 Salix was conspicuous on the banks. Here, also, I noticed paper 

 being manufactured from Daphne cannabina, the only difference 

 in the process followed from that described at page 14, being that 

 the bark was boiled with wood ashes prior to conversion into paper 

 stock. The paper was tolerably fine and used for writing. I did 

 not see the plant growing, but had specimens brought me, and 



