FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



Point of Departure of Routes 

 and Names of Rivers alioiit 

 which Information was col- 

 lected. 



Khamti — continued 



ROUTKS INTO BURMAH , 



valley of the Brahmaputra): 17th, Keloum, 

 Assamese ; 1 8th, Chuika, id. : 1 9th, Talap, id. 

 (by boat on the Brahmaputra) — point where the 

 railway from Dibrugarh begins — altogether 19 

 (lays. But Huoe-Daung, prime minister and 

 nephew of the king of Khamti, who was my 

 informant on the above itineraries, only estimated 

 our route by the Phungan-Boum at 19 days, 

 whereas it took 22 ; so that I believe 22 days 

 should be allowed for this one also, and 27 or 28 

 for the first of the three. 

 A'd/c. — Huoe-Daung had twice made the journey to 

 Bhamo and Mandalay, and showed me proofs that 

 each occasion was genuine. He gave in detail the 

 stages on the two routes which he had taken. Inas- 

 much as he was intelligent and endowed with a 

 remarkable memory, and as his information con- 

 cerning the Assam routes was confirmed by 

 e.xperience, I am inclined to place reliance on that 

 which he furnished with regard to Burmah. Yet, 

 in the A/ap of the Khimpour District^ Bor-Kampti 

 CoiDitry, Nat^a Hills, etc., published in 1894 by the 

 (jeographical Service of India, there is a route from 

 Khamti to Bhamo traced in accordance with 

 received intelligence, in which not one of the 

 names mentioned by Huoe-Daung appears. Can 

 this be a third route ? or is it possible that the 

 information supplied to the English by the Kachin 

 natives was intentionally erroneous ? 

 Route I. — Twenty-nine days from Khamti to Mogoung 



(Burmese name) or Mainghong (Thai name), whence 



by rowing or steam boat to Bhamo. 

 Stages — ist day, Langdao (Khamtis) : 2nd, Moung- 

 yac (Singphos or Kachins, Burmese name for 

 independent Singphos) ; 3rd, Kauka ; 4th, Nam- 

 doungra ; 5th, N'daian ; 6th, Lecho ; 7th, Hasa ; 

 8th, Kaition ; 9th, N'kam Lakan ; loth, N'da 

 Kelon ; i ith, N'ouat Tsaokan ; 12th, Haoutonka ; 

 13th, Menlon ; 14th, Deroupom ; 15th, Paning- 

 kou ; 1 6th, Nainting (from the 2nd to the i6th 

 day inclusive, independent Singphos); 17th, 

 N'bom ; i8th, Logna ; 19th, N'siensoing ; 20th, 

 Ningkon ; 21st, Menoupom ; 22nd, Tinka ; 23rd, 

 Lanikonglo ; 24th, Medouzop ; 25th, Lopan ; 

 26th, Maupangla (from the 17th to the 26th day 

 inclusive, subject Singphos) ; 27th, Poukan (Thais 

 or Shans) ; 28th, Loili (Thais); 29th, Mogoung. 



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