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ther south, I am informed : it was about the size of a roebuck, with 

 a grey coat of coarse fur, and short horns, and two projecting teeth 

 in the lower jaw ; the sack of musk had been allowed to remain un- 

 touched. Last year these highlanders killed a Burman officer, 

 who had been sent to the amber mines, to ascertain the reason 

 for the annual tribute and vassalage not having been paid, but a 

 reconciliation had recently been brought about by the intercession 

 of the hpoongyees. The Kakhyens, Singphos, or Thainbows as 

 they are called, to the west of the Irrawaddy, differ greatly in 

 appearance and costume from their kinsmen of the opposite bank. 

 They are shorter and more square built, with a fairer complexion, 

 flatter features, and less hair about the body generally ; indeed, 

 had I not been told who they were, I should have mistaken them 

 for a Shan tribe, — so much more civilized are they to look at than 

 the wild mountaineer of the eastern range. Both men and 

 women dress their hair dla Burmese ; the cloth the men wear round 

 their loins is of a blue ground, with narrow green lines forming 

 checks ; the women adopt a coloured loongyee, which extends from 

 under the arms, covering the breasts, to below the knees, but on 

 neither sex did I notice cane garters, or girdles, or cowrie ornaments 

 in any form. Their jewellery was more after the Burmese 

 fashion ; neither was the ear bored in any place but the lobe, 

 which was occupied by an ordinary amber tube. By repute they 

 are the most blood-thirsty and dangerous of any of the highland 

 tribes, but that they are in a stage of transition is apparent from 

 the fact that numbers of them have become Buddhist converts, and 

 all, as a rule, respect the hpoongyees, abide by their decisions, and 

 exempt them from assault or plunder. The foregoing remarks 

 more particularly refer to the clans of the Hokum Valley and that 

 vicinity, the tribes of the Moohinyin district being almost identi- 

 cal in appearance, costume, and habits with those to the east. 



313. Two reports reached the Governor to-day, — one, was that 

 sixty-five Thainbows of the karko tribe had assembled on the Nanyah 

 choung, which takes its rise in the vicinity of the serpentine mines, 

 and that they threatened the lives of all who passed up that way. 

 This disturbance originated in a native of India having run away 

 with a lump of Jade unpaid for ; the other report was that three 

 Shan-Talokes had been killed during an engagement, near the 

 Endawgyee lake, three days ago. 



314. Sunday, 22nd February 1874. — Thermometer, 71° at 6 

 a.m. ; fine morning ; my boats arrived at 3 p.m., having taken eight 

 days to perform the journey between this and the mouth of the 

 Mogoung river. In places the water was described as so shallow, 



