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(7) — Tkoung-myoung-zee-hmaw, (o^SGcgoSs^iG^Sii) signifying great 

 canal prison. 



(8) — Sanse-sankine-hmaw (©s8i>8$G«5») 



(9) — Patit-hmaw (oodScoSu) 

 (10) — Pkassa-loung-hmaw (olseGCO ^Ssg^Sh) 

 (11) — Pha-kotechit-hmaw (&\ sodo5s*$go5») 

 Made fast for the night a mile below the last rapid. 



346. Tuesday, 24th March 1874.— Thermometer, 68° at 6 a.m. 

 Heavy rain during the night ; cloudy this morning. The banks were 

 again rich in vegetation, and festooned with Thwibergia, Clerodendron 

 and Letsomia, which last is used for cordage. A little further on, 

 and the river is sub-divided by a permanent island, densely wooded, 

 below which the banks are of yellow clay ; then comes the Shan and 

 Kakhyen village on the left bank of Areloungboree, where teak tim- 

 ber was being converted. We stopped here a little while to get some 

 saw-dust on&powynet, to stop the leak in the boat recently damaged. 

 Noticed some Kakhyen women dyeing twist brick-red with pieces of 

 Butia, and the root of Bottler a tinctoria. From here the hills rapidly 

 recede ; and by the time the Shan-Burman village of Kouk-toung 

 is reached, they are in the far distance, and the country on either 

 side one continuous flat, that to the east being sparsely wooded 

 and overgrown with Saccharum, and Arundo grasses, while that to the 

 west is one vast sea of paddy land. Kouk-toung is of some consider- 

 able importance, and carries on an extensive trade in paddy, teak, 

 and endway resin. It contains sixty houses enclosed by a treble- 

 walled bamboo stockade ; without to the south, is a Kakhyen settle- 

 ment of twenty houses. It is situated on the right bank, and the 

 soil is of a light red, sandy nature, the river flowing some forty feet 

 below, and rising to within ten feet of the top, during the highest 

 flood ; here were exposed for sale a Shan mother and daughter 

 brought from the direction of the serpentine mines ; the former was 

 about forty years of age, and valued at thirty ticals of opium ; and the 

 latter eight to twelve years old, and priced at four hundred baskets 

 of paddy which is equivalent to about Rs. 40. The father had 

 been killed when the village was plundered and burnt down. I felt in- 

 clined to pay the price set on these poor creatures, and release them 

 from bondage ; but I questioned, whether I should be bettering their 

 condition, for they seemed exceedingly happy where- they were ; and 

 once free, no doubt poverty might have driven them to crime. 



347. Wednesday, 25th March 1874.— Thermometer, 63° at 6 a.m. 

 Two miles lower down, and a small creek on the left bank forms 

 the boundary of the Mogoung and Moohnyin District. Another 

 two hours brought us to the mouth of the Mogoung river, where we 



