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of this fish it is believed. The mountain slopes continue to be 

 densely wooded to the water's edge on both banks. Gibbons are 

 common, and the forest echoes again with their wailing cry. Muos 

 cercopithecus were also conspicuous. 



210. The celebrated pagoda of Shoay-chet-ake next attracts 

 attention ; it is situated on the right bank on a spur of rock that 

 projects into the water some little distance. The golden cock is 

 supposed to sleep here, and feed at Amarapoora, where, it will be 

 remembered, a pagoda has been dedicated to it : the building is 

 maintained in a state of good repair. Not quarter of a mile fur- 

 ther on, is the site of old Thapahin, which was plundered and burnt 

 down by the Kakhyens last year. Here again the river is divided 

 by a block of serpentine 150 feet long, the channels on either side 

 nit exceeding 50 to 80 yards, that to the west being the broader. 

 By 4 p.m. we had made the village of Thaminagyee occupied by 

 Pwons — a tribe allied to the Shans and speaking a dialect of their 

 language. In type of feature, the two people are identical, but 

 the former are of a darker complexion, and "inclined to be more 

 hairy about the limbs. Their chief means of livelihood consists in the 

 sale of teak and bamboos, on which the neighbouring Kakhyens 

 levy black-mail. The village contains about forty houses of the 

 Shan type, with a slanting thatched roof, and elliptic gables. The 

 whole are enclosed in a double wall bamboo pallisade. The 

 place had recently been attacked by the adjacent mountaineers, 

 but the Pwons were able to hold their own, though I am told 

 there was a great loss of life on both sides : they were now in 

 hourly dread of a second raid, for the Kakhyens are notedly 

 revengeful, and never forgive their enemies unless handsomely 

 compensated for the killed and wounded of their party ; and even 

 then merely await an idle excuse to wipe out the (supposed) dis- 

 grace by the sword. 



211. I remained here for the night. Quarter of a mile inland 

 I came on a party of Pwons burning lime. The kiln consisted of a 

 hole twenty feet deep and eight feet in diameter ; it was situated 

 on a steep incline ; the mouth of the furnace was below, and sup- 

 ported by a rubble arch. The kiln is charged with alternate lay- 

 ers of lime and wood, and finally covered in with earth. After 

 lighting the fires the people return to their village for the night ; 

 the slaked lime is taken to Bhamo, and bartered for cloth or arti- 

 cles of food. The late Mr. Graham, agent of the firm of Suther- 

 land and Mackenzie, joined me here; he was hurrying up river in a 

 loung, to establish a bartering system of trade with the people, which 

 he seemed to think would prove a most remunerative business ; he 



