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used for culinary purposes. Cocoanut, Papaya, /EgU marmelos, jack, 

 mango, Areca catechu, and plantains were among the cultivated varie- 

 ties. I bagged Chalcophaps indica, Urocissa occipitalis, Carpophaya 

 sylvatica, and four Gallus fcrrugineus, which latter feed near villages, 

 and I am told often interbreed with the domestic variety. Tha- 

 phan-bin is enclosed in a treble stockade, the intermediate spaces 

 between the bamboo palisades being planted with'spikes of the 

 same material, in addition to this precaution, each house has its 

 own separate bamboo enclosure — so great is the dread of Ka- 

 khyen raids. The village is picturesquely situated at the base 

 of a low range of hills, the most prominent having the repute of 

 being pervaded by a ndt, and on which account is exempted from 

 toungya clearings. It was long after dark before I got back to my 

 boat, and my people expressed delight at seeing me return alive, 

 for they had been hearing all sorts of exaggerated accounts from 

 the Shan-Burman villagers of the acts of atrocity committed by 

 the Kakhyens, and the unhesitating manner in which they took 

 life for the mere love of the sport ! 



207. Monday, 12th January 1S74. — Detained starting this morn- 

 ing till 9 a.m., so dense was the fog. Thermometer at 6 a.m. 49° 

 Fahrenheit in my cabin. Before our departure Moung Shwe Dway, 

 the Loogyee of the village, called on me with a present of fruit ; 

 he seemed a civil, intelligent fellow, and ready to give information. 

 According to his account there is a prosperous trade in paddy, bam- 

 boos, and teak carried on between this village and Bhamo. Teak, 

 he said, of eighteen feet long and six feet girth realized Es. 8 

 at Bhamo, and paddy, Bs. 1-2 per basket. He likewise mentioned 

 that teak was sufficiently seasoned to float in nine months, if girdled 

 when the tree is in flower, felled three months subsequently, and 

 allowed to dry with butt-end supported at an angle of 45° with 

 the horizontal line. Before taking his departure, he asked for 

 some medicine, as he and many others in his village were sub- 

 ject to fever, for which they could find no remedy though they had 

 been unceasing in their invocations and offerings to the ndts. 

 I gave the poor fellow a little quinine, for which he seemed 

 immensely thankful, more especially when I told him the proba- 

 bility was, all signs of the malady would have left after the third 

 dose. I was also visited by a Kakhyen who introduced himself 

 as Poung Kullo, brother of Kummiong, a Chief of Nee-wah-toung: 

 he was accompanied by some half a dozen followers. Their costume, 

 mode of wearing hair, and class of arms corresponded to those of 

 the same tribe already described, with the one exception, that 

 Poung Kullo wore a necklet of yellow clayey-looking beads, which 

 is not only a distinctive mark of rank and family, but is alone worn 



