between the Southern Part of' Bengal and Ava. 31 



the two chains are connected by cross lashings at each bundle. 

 More chains are then added, till the float is perhaps twelve 

 feet wide and 300 feet long. At Kaungla Prus market three 

 hundred of these bamboos are valued at only one rupee (little 

 more than two shillings Sterling ;) but three-fourths of a ru- 

 pee, without any other allowance, are considered good month- 

 ly wages for a labouring man. 



About a mile above the market-place, a very considerable 

 branch, named Sualuk, enters the Sunkar from the south ; 

 and on this, at four or five miles from the market-place, is the 

 residence of Kaungla Pru. A little way below the Sualuk 

 another considerable branch, named Barwany, enters the Sun- 

 kar from the north, and on its bank is the residence of Agun- 

 nea, the chief of the northern division of the Joomeas, whose 

 people trade with the Bengalese at Guleachera, a market- 

 place on the Barwany, after that stream enters the low coun- 

 try occupied by Bengalese. 



Between the Sunkar and the Mamuri (Moree, Rennell) the 

 tide proceeds a little farther east than the road laid down by 

 Rennell in the Bengal Atlas (No. I. ;) but all the streams fall 

 into either one or other of these rivers, both of nearly an equal 

 size. The Bengalese population extends along its banks, 

 through a fine valley named Chuckerya, to a place named 

 Manikpur, where the rock descends to the river. It must be 

 observed, that the places laid down on this route by Mr Ren- 

 nell, such as Companyshaut, Sunouttu, Hurvung, Baratulla, 

 Chuckerya, Dulloohazari and Edgong, are not villages but 

 vallies ; nor are there any villages or small towns between Is- 

 lamabad and Ramoo. The Bengalese there live in detached 

 houses; but at stated times, once or twice a week, assemble 

 in open market-places to buy and sell what is wanted. At 

 these market-places are usually some large trees, under the 

 shade of which travellers halt. Such are most of the places 

 laid down by Rennell in the Bengal Atlas, that are marked by 

 a small circle (o). In parts of the country where many tra- 

 vellers pass, there may be a shop or two for supplying them 

 with provisions, and some sheds, where hucksters, on market- 

 days, expose their goods, but such is not the case in the south- 

 ern parts of Chatigang. 



