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wards and, passing a small Karen villnge at the Ngye-fsi-lah swamp, we ngaiu, after 

 a few miles march, entered the rice fields where we joined the cart road. The further 

 march was uninteresting in the extreme : only rice fields and villages were met with. Towards 

 the evening I observed that my camp had put up in the savannahs near a half-rotten shed, 

 and heard to my astonishment that this was Nay yua, the village itself having been swept 

 away by the Irrawaddi some years ago. In fact 1 had observed all the way that the 

 encroacumeut of the Irrawaddi was on this side, thus shewing a tendency to shifting 

 eastward, just as the Ganges does. The earth-slips caused by the encroachment of the river 

 are easily accounted for by the fact that the whole surface clay rests on fine sand and becomes 

 thus quickly undermined by the force of the stream. Exposed escarpments of the Irrawaddi 

 gave me the following section at Suay-pagau : 



stiff c^v day, ivith, oceasicnuzl iemtgineotiS 

 cuifnujctiirea arujb Decayed^ plant retsbs anci tresK 

 ujater shells . 



Ftftt' sanji/ idettUcat u/ith' thafi ofth^ b^ach'. 



Section of the E. bank of Irrawaddi Suay pagan. 



16</j January, 1871. This morning I sent my camp on to Tharawa, while I engaged 

 boats for crossing the stream ; but these boats were so small, that our crossing to Ouk yua, 

 about two miles south of Henzadah, was not effected before 11 a. m., when I found to my dis- 

 appointment that I could not get a bullock-cart before 4 p. m., because the bullocks were in 

 the fields. After taking some notes on the vegetation of the banks of the Irrawaddi, where I 

 found amongst others a European Banunctilus and Veronica, I rode on to Henzadah, leaving 

 a few of my men to take charge of my luggage. The environs shewed savannahs and savan- 

 nah forests at a distance, but the road lay along the dams through a series of villages. 

 After dark my luggage and followers arrived and we put up in the zyat. During the 

 following days I was busy packing my collections, and replenishing my provisions for a 

 long tour over the Yomah and with such other matters as suggest themselves after a long 

 absence from a station. Mr. A. ilore, Deputy Post Master of the station, was good enough 

 to take upon himself to put my plant-boxes on board the next steamer, and so I was able to 

 start after a sojourn of only two days. 



^Sfh Januari/, 1871. Crossed over to Tharawa with the usual delays and difficulties, 

 and joined my camp there. 



19//t Jiinuarij, 1871. Camp stayed, as several of my men as well as my interpreter 

 were laid up with fever. 



20)'A January, 1871. Started for Thabie-gon on the Lhein river. After passing 

 the cultivated lands wo found ourselves again in savannah-forests where in a few places the 

 trees grew so crowded together as to resemble in growth more those of a lower mixed forest. 

 They were chiefly ouk-chin-za (Dioapi/ros ehretioides), Kaboung {Cotubrina nux wmica), 

 h'u)g& {Stej)/ie(j>/nc rotundi/olia), rxxanioga, {Carallia integcrrima) lein {Terviinalia pyrifolia), 



