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14/A March, 1868. Halted. Paid and discharged the coolies. 



15//* March, 1868. Moved on to Palavva zeik, where I found my old camp, hut the 

 men in charge of it were laid up with fever. 



\Wt March, 1868. Mr. Graham left this morning for Toungoo while I recommenced my 

 excursions into the surrounding forests, in which a good number of trees had in the meantime 

 come into flower. These tropical forests afford new subjects of interest as often as one enters 

 them, as every month produces a change in the general appearance of their constituents. 

 It is difficult therefore in the course of a short journey through the forests, to describe them 

 accurately, and it thus often happens that only their floral developement is described, and not 

 their true character. My excursions occupied me for 4 successive days, during which time I 

 made numerous additions to my lists of trees. 



20/A March, 1868. Moved my camp to Nakawa choung half way between Palawa 

 zeik and the seven pagodas and situated in the heart of tropical evergreen forests. Here I 

 continued my excursions up to the 27th ; but suffered much from attacks of fever. 



28//i March, 1868. lleturned to Toungoo and remained there till the 8th, arranging and 

 packing my collections, engaging new hands, etc. During my stay my interpreter left my 

 service, having suffered a good deal from fever. 



9/A April, 18G8. lleturned to the Toukyeghat and put up, as usual at the zyat of the 

 seven pagodns. Here I visited the various leaf-shedding forests, and more especially the Eiig 

 forests, which had assumed quite another aspect on account of the numerous gay flowers that 

 now adorned the trees. Both my elephants arrived with sore backs, and I had to wait for 

 12 days till I got others. 



22irf April, 1868. The fresh elephants arrived yesterday, and this morning I started 

 again for my old camp at Nakawa choung, where much still remained to be done. Here I 

 remained until the 27th. The days were hot and sultry, with heavy thunder-storms which 

 usually commenced with such force as to bring down lofty trees. My camp was, however, 

 pitched in the bottom of the Nakawa valley, and was thus sheltered, but in spite of this we 

 were in frequent danger owing to the fall of heavy branches of trees. On one occasion, at mid- 

 night, a lofty tree which stood before my tent broke at its very root, and fell straight over 

 the tent, but its descent was fortunately arrested by the thick entangled branches of a Baiihi- 

 via and thus my life was saved. My people soon became prostrated with fever one by one, 

 and I mj'self had several severe attacks which necessitated my leaving the forests, much to 

 my regret, for the storms had brought down such quantities of branches, that the collection 

 of ^ecimens of trees was rendered quite easy. 



28//i April, 1868. I started tliis morning alone for the seven pagodas, leaving my 

 sick people to follow on the elephants, but I soon found that I was weaker than I thought : 

 I slipped from my saddle several times, almost helpless, but my pony seemed to understand 

 my condition, for he remained by my side like a dog. On arriving at the zyat I stopped for 

 the next three days, confined to my bed. 



\st May, 1868. Early this morning I moved to Toungoo, staying there for the. next 

 ten days until I had recovered. During that time I made my preparations for my trip 

 down to Rangoon via Minlan and Pegu. I had however to change my plans at the advice of 

 the civil surgeon of the station, and to take the route by boat down the Sittang. 



Tear 1871. 



16th, April, 1871. Toungoo. After having packed my collections and arranged other 

 little affairs during the preceding 2 days I started to-day for the Chinchona plantations on 

 the Shan toung gyi hill, east of Toungoo, in order to report upon them, at the request of the 

 Deputy Conservator of the division. 



After crossing the Sittang river, we again came upon savannah forests intersected by 

 small lakes and choungs, bordered by small patches of swamp forests. The laterite formation 

 which here, as along the Yomah, borders the outskirt of the Martaban hills, soon replaced 

 the alluvium, and the forests were accordingly Eug-forests with admixtures peculiar to this 

 province, such as Trntania, Aniieslea, Querciis, etc. Encamped at Allay myoung. 



lath April, 1871. Leaving the eng-forest on laterite ground we soon entered (on 

 older formations strewn with granite boulders) one of those forests characteristic of Martaban, 

 which combine in some degree the character of Evergreen and upper mixed forests, 

 though still belonging to the latter class. Teak was only sparingly represented here. After 

 passing over some low hills, on the top of one of which hill-laterite with a stunted eng- 

 forest unexpectedly appeared, we descended into low lands covered by Evergreen tropical 

 forests, and encamped at a small choung (Tabic chg. ?). The formation appeared to be schist 

 dipping N. W. at 80" occasionally very ferruginous and decomposing into a kind of laterite. 

 The forest itself is identical in vegetation with that of the Toukyeghat in which I spent so 

 many weeks in 186ft. 



