APPENDIX E. 



EXTRACTS FROM MR. KURZ'S JOURNAL OF HIS TOURS IN 



B. BURMA. 



I have nfert thought it advisable to enlarge this Journal by introducing scientifically and 

 iw s/jecte botanically interesting matters. It is drawn up chiefly for the purpose of describ- 

 ing the route I pursued and of mentioning the flora I met with. Having specialized, or 

 rather generalized, the various varieties of forests, etc., in the first part of this report, I have 

 now been able to simplifiy matters considerably by using the terms adopted in that report for 

 such vegetative combinations, only occasionally mentioning the trees themselves in cases 

 where I thought it necessary or useful to do so. All matters not directly connected with the 

 progress of my work, such as remarks on the habits of people, their trade, etc. are omitted ; 

 by doing which the Journal has become a very dry narrative ; but I felt it my duty to stick 

 to my subject and to introduce as little superfluous matter as possible. 



I have arranged both the tours of 1867-68 and 1870-71 into one continuous narrative, 

 BO as to bring the various topics under the same head. Those routes, which I made in 

 company with the Inspector-General and Conservator of Forests, are already given in the 

 Journal of these gentlemen. (See the Appendix to Oapt. W. T. Seaton's Progress Eeport of 

 the Forest Department, B. Burma for 1867-68). I have therefore omitted them from this 

 narrative, and as it is chiefly drawn up for the use of forest ofiicers iu Burma, I have used the 

 Burmese names of trees, etc., as far as they appeared to me reliable. 



The maps* used by me are the following : 



1. Capt. F. Fitzroy's British Burmah, Pegu Division. 1862. (Scale 4 miles = 1 inch). 



2. District Akyab, 1853-61. Surveyor General's Office, (Scale : 4 miles = 1 inch). 



3. Lt. A. H. Bagges, Map of Tenasserim and the adjacent provinces of Siam. (Scale 8 

 miles = 1 inch). 



4. D. Brandis, Sketch map of the teak localities in the Tenasserim and Martaban 

 Provinces. Rangoon 1861. (Scale : 8 miles = 1 inch). 



5. Eastern Bengal, Burma and parts of China and Siam. Surveyor General's Office. 

 1870. (Scale 3-2 miles = 1 inch). 



6. District Ohittagong. 18-35-66. Surveyor General's Office. (Scale : 4 miles=l inch). 



7. Stanford's Map of India. Loud. 1670. (Scale : 68.9 miles = 1 inch) and the same, 

 portable map (scale : 100 miles = 1 inch). 



I left the Botanic gardens, Calcutta, on the 1st Dec. 1870, and embarked for 

 Rangoon the following day on board the Steamer " Asia." Arrived at Akyab on the 4th 

 December, and made a short excursion on the environs of that station. The sandstone ranges 

 opposite Akyab are covered by upper mixed forests with plenty of pyenkadu, Xylia dolahrifor- 

 mis, but no teak. The formation on which they grow is soft permeable sandstone (the same 

 as that of the Andamans and the Pegu Yomah). The little berry-bearing bamboo (Melocaima 

 baccifera) is plentiful in some localities. Evergreen tropical forests occur on favourably 

 exposed slopes, and more especially on Boronga Island, where numerous wood-oil trees are 

 seen. The lands around the station itself consist chiefly of rice cultivation alternating with 

 wastelands and shrubberies in more sandy localities. Along the western shores, mangrove- 

 swamps of small extent border the sea, in which Broionlowia lanceolata and a few Saholacem 

 were observed. 



Wednesday, 7th Dec. 1870. Landed at Rangoon. The first days were spent, as might 

 be expected, iu making the necessary preparations and arrangements for my tour up-couutry. 

 The only difficulty I experienced was the engagement of men and elephants, for which 

 purpose I had to prolong my stay much against my expectation. 



* Col. Yule's Map of Barmah proper is out of prin'', and I did not, therefore, succeed in procuring it. It 

 would have been of great service to me for studying the details of the country and deducing the climatological 

 connection with the Prome and Tonghoo districts. 



