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pond. A short distance above the last rapid, reached the site of a village 

 called Chum-ka-te, and put to for the night: here also are salt springs. 

 Total time moving this day, eight hours. 



14th — Reached the junction of the Kumbut and Maglung rivers 

 without meeting any impediment from rapids ; the point where 

 the above rivers unite is about eight miles east of Wetup, and in the 

 Kubo valley. The village of Mo, from whence is the ascent of the pass 

 leading to Pa-tcbe-ne, across the Angoching, is distant from hence about 

 one and a half mile. East at the last-named village are most extensive 

 salt springs, which supply the whole of the southern division of Kubo, 

 and Nga villages to the west of it, with salt. Total time moving this 

 day, seven and half hours. 



N. B. — The general width of the valley of the Maglung is about two 

 miles, that of the river about 120 yards : its course upwards nearly east 

 and west, except where it rounds the bases of the different ranges of 

 hills, which it does by turning for a short distance to the north ; in places 

 throughout its course it is confined by a steep or abrupt face of rock. 

 The hills from both sides terminate at, and slope gradually down to, its 

 bed, leaving a gap for its egress to the Ningthee*. I have no doubt a 

 road might be made through the valley : it must necessarily, however, 

 be very circuitous, and the river crossed frequently ; drawbacks which 

 would more than counterbalance the advantages to be derived from it. 

 That the river might, with great advantage, be made available for trans- 

 porting grain and other stores by boats from the Kubo valley to the 

 Ningthee, my trip up it places beyond a doubt. The shore on either 

 side is covered to the water's edge with a forest of teak, saul, keu, 

 cotton, (semul,) wood oil, (gurjun,) and other noble trees, similar to 

 those of the Kubo valley, and actually swarms with wild beasts, of the 

 descriptions already mentioned in this journal ; throughout the whole 

 course of the river through the Angoching hills, there is not a space of 

 ten yards free of paths made by them down to the water, which gives 

 the idea of a crowded population. In the neighbourhood of the Ning- 

 thee, fish are most abundant ; the Manipurees (inordinate fish-eaters) 

 who accompanied me, were regularly satiated with it : amongst others, 

 I recognized the roo muchlee, cutla, mirga, kulbause, poontea, large 

 and small, bowali, soli, mullet, pufta, gurri, and various others of 

 which I know not the names ; but all of which my Bengalee servants 

 recognised as similar to those found in the Surma at Sylhet. I had also 

 prawns of an immense size brought me, and porpoises were amusing 

 themselves in the Ningthee. 



* It is to be regretted that the course of the Maglung was not given in the sketch 

 map from which Plate VII. is lithographed. — Ed. 



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