350 Report on a Route across [No. 4, 



Perambulator, if we stood still for any time we found them lodge in. 

 our necks. The amount of blood these creatures take from one, be- 

 fore becoming aware of it, is really exhausting, and it is therefore 

 desirable to warn others. 



1 1. The night was fine, the rain was reserved till day light for 

 our special benefit : crossed a tolerably sized (80 feet) river just 

 beyond Apay, and another at the 20th mile, a tributary of the 

 Tsoompeon. We came to the end of the Hills at the 22nd mile, and 

 entered upon a fine open country, with patches of jungle and garden 

 and paddy lands, capable of any amount of cultivation. 



At the 22nd mile, the Hills stretched away to the southward, and 

 seemed to run east, parallel with our course, about a mile and a half 

 to the northward, and, as we fancied, along the left bank of the 

 Tsoompeon river. 



At the 23rd and 25th miles, crossed another river of 120 feet in 

 breadth, the margin of which was much cultivated, and we con. 

 tinued along (about half a mile from) the left bank of this river, 

 which seems to be the Pah-Klong joining the Tsoompeon near its 

 mouth, to the 29th mile, after which, at a distance of thirty miles from 

 Krau, we re-crossed the Tsoompeon where it is about 200 feet broad, 

 and arrived at the residence of the chief civil authority of this 

 district, who received us most kindly at about noon of the 

 3rd April. 



12. Tsoompeon is a large place of some four or five hundred 

 houses, with a water communication of twenty miles with the gulf of 

 Siam. We thought of continuing our journey down the stream the 

 same day, but the heavy rain that fell was even more persuasive 

 than the kind and polite old Governor who, as soon as we had made 

 up our minds to remain till next morning, placed every thing 

 that weary travellers could recpaire at our disposal, and ordered 

 boats to be in readiness for us at 2 A. M. (4th April) when the 

 ebb made. There is a rise and fall of tide here of about 6 feet. 



13. Started at 2 a. m. of the 4th April, and proceeded down a 

 very winding stream to the mouth of the river opening in to the 

 gulf of Siam, where we arrived at 5| A. M. or in about 3J hours 

 having the tide with us. Here we landed and found a fine villa, 

 in some disrepair ; this was said to be the King's residence when 

 he came to this part of his dominions. His steamers were said 



