1833.] Journal of a Mission from Ava to Kendat. 67. 
course of the river is exceedingly circuitous amongst low rugged 
hills, across which our path has lain : after passing three small villages, 
each in its little valley by the stream, which is here perhaps two and 
half feet deep, at 4h. 45 m. halted at Nanthee, a village, 40 or 50 
houses, with extensive paddy fields, many black cattle, and a few horses. 
2nd. Time 5 h. 40 m.; distance 16 miles; direction N. 20° 
E. 7h. 50m., leave Nanthee, and proceed along the banks of the stream 
in a little valley, two or three miles in width, in which the Nan- 
thee villages are scattered in the same way as were those of Ma-tsen 
yesterday ; road partly good, till 9h. 30m. when we entered the jun- 
gle, and the path assumes the same character as the jungle of the 
last few days, from 1 h. 30 m. till 2h. 30m. when we halted at 
Kendat : the road is level, and the country open and cultivated to 
the N. W. as far as the Khyen-dwen river ; immediately on the wes- 
tern side of which, distant about six miles, the rugged hills of the Ma- 
nipuir territory rise to some height, and run away in confused and 
broken ranges to the N. E. close to the edge of the river. Kendat, 
the present residence of the Khambat or Kendat Woon, (for the 
former title is still given him by the Burmans, though the town from 
which he takes it, is at present subject to Manipir ;) is a long, narrow 
jungle-wood stockade close to the east bank of the river, containing 
perhaps 12 or 1400 inhabitants, situated in a long narrow swampy 
valley, lying along the river, about 15 or 20 miles in length and aver- 
aging one-half or two miles in width, with a strip of swampy ground, 
which appears atone time tohave formed the bed of the river running 
to the eastward of it. The number of cattle is smaller in proportion 
to the number of inhabitants than in the villages nearer the capital. Bad 
as the road is from Thoun-bouk to this, Iam assured, that ALomMpRA 
once travelled it in a carriage! and that it is the best, perhaps the only 
one by which any number of people ever come in this direction, I have 
little doubt. It is called by all the poor people in the villages, who can- 
not be suspected of any motive to deceive, and who could not have been 
warned to do so, Lan-ma-dau-gyee, or great royal road (king’s high 
way), and is I dare say very passable to a Burmese army, who have no 
commissariat, and whose artillery is not the most extensive, and is often 
moved by manual labor, assisted by elephants. 
10th. Waiting to this date for the arrival of Captain Grant from 
Manipir, who joined me this evening ; have seen a good deal of the Kam- 
bat Woon, since my arrival here; he tells me the Payen-dwen or amber 
mine, so called, is in the bed of this river, about 40 days from this place ; 
but that the amber is found most abundant, about four miles inland, on 
the eastern side of the river, where it is obtained in pieces sometimes 
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