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for a strong stockade, he also made a tremendous hubbub with songs, 

 trumpets, &c. whilst I was passing; the village is a good-sized one, con- 

 taining about eighty houses. 



Eleven hours more brought me to Sunayachil. At this season the 

 current is very trifling. On the eastern side sand-banks extend for 

 four hundred yards into the bed of the river, offering favourable points 

 for the crossing of troops, which at this season of the year might be 

 effected on rafts, were boats not procurable. Both sides of the Ningthee 

 are overgrown with dense forests, except on the sides of villages : the 

 high road from Gendah to the present capital of Sumpok runs to the east 

 of the small range of hills, which skirts the Burmese bank of the 

 Ningthee. 



10th February — Embarked in my dingy, accompanied by two 

 others, to return up the Ningthee to Yuwa, where it is joined by the 

 Maglung. I was rather confined for room ; indeed, regularly packed, 

 being unable to move hands or feet after once being seated in the boat. 

 Reached Wegadza in six hours, where my people ran up a covering, for 

 me to pass the night, of branches and leaves : a precaution rendered 

 necessary as a protection against the heavy dew which soaks through 

 every thing exposed to it. The fogs which continue till 9a.m. are also so 

 heavy as to render indistinct, objects at fifteen or twenty paces distance. 



11th — Reached Yuwa in three hours, being in all nine hours from 

 Sunayachil ; or only two hours more than it took the boat to go the 

 same distance with the current. Two men were all that rowed the boat 

 up. This will give an idea of the slackness of the stream. After 

 proceeding up the Maglung for three hours, put to for the night. The 

 Maglung discharges itself with some force into the Ningthee, and as 

 before observed, a boat or raft coming out of it would be carried with- 

 out any exertion nearly to the opposite side of the latter, in which 

 there is no perceptible current. After once getting fairly into the 

 Maglung, the current is moderate, and the waters shoal, not more than 

 two feet in depth ; its course during this day nearly from west to east. 

 Put to for the night on the sand-bank and enjoyed a coal fire, of which 

 mineral there was abundance lying about. The tracks of wild beasts 

 of every description were numerous and recent in the sand. 



12th — At day-light this morning, was roused by a loud but 

 not very harmonious concert, the performers being elephants, ti- 

 gers, bears, boars, and deer. About three hours after starting reached 

 the site of a village named Yang-num, at which was formerly a Ma- 

 nipur thana ; near the site of the thana is a peepul tree, planted, 

 the Kubos say, by the Manipurees, another proof that Kubo belong- 

 ed to them at a former period. I landed for the purpose of examin- 



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