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What was to be done to appease the stomach that could not digest 

 ironstone, or slaty limestone ? I bought, after some trouble, for the 

 poor people had no provision to spare, some rice for the escort who 

 had also left all at Bouk, and permission to shoot a fowl, I shot the 

 fattest hen I could see, and my syce having boiled it, finger and 

 thumb did duty for carvers, and while discussing the " Sighing well," 

 a probable exhalation of carbonic acid gas, in the neighbourhood, and 

 the morrow's route, I fell asleep. 



On waking the next morning I got all to set out for Bouk at once, 

 and again- with my companion of yesterday, the Bouk headman, 

 started north along the valley. After ' following the same road for 

 some six miles, we struck off against the ridge on our left as it were, 

 but managed somehow to come into a glen and then up and down, 

 through a pass across the apparently single but now clearly com- 

 pound ridge of mountains, and finally descending on the western 

 side, came into the road of yesterday again, and after getting a view 

 of Mandaley in the distance, reached the plain and galloped into 

 Bouk. 



Here some blind people who had heard of my relieving some 

 people at the capital came to get sight. They were incurable, but 

 showed me that my healing fame was spreading. 



Returning the same afternoon we went first south-west for a 

 little, then westerly to gain the north-west corner of the great Nan- 

 dangan reservoir. In the plain about four miles from the mountain 

 foot spurs, we came upon a hill of mainly the same crystalline lime- 

 stone with the same dip and strike that I had seen near Seebeing, but 

 with also abundance of quartz and felspar. (?) 



A quiet ride along the fiat plain, through a few villnges, and about 

 7 P. M., the tired elephant landed me at my door. 



These hills evidently consist of transition rocks of Primitive Lime- 

 stone, gneiss, silicious schist, slaty and crystalline limestone, — mica 

 is more or less abundant everywhere. The small hills that I have 

 had an opportunity of examining between the Irrawaddi and the 

 Shan mountains, and south of the Sagain limestone, are gneiss, 

 granite as at Kangee of a red and grey mottle, with no tendency to 

 stratification, crystalline and slaty limestone, and silicious schist, and 

 pure quartz as at Kyatping about thirty miles to the north-east of 

 this. 



