606 An account of some of the Petty States [Oct. 



" 9. 30. Path soft through long grass surrounded by hills. 



" 9. 40. Along the rocky bed of the Yea-ta-goon-keun, (waterfall stream.) 



" 10. 30. Halted for half an hour. — 11. Ascended with some difficulty the 

 face of a broken rock 3 or 400 feet in height, over which the water of the Yea- 

 ia-goon during the rains falls. — 11. 30. Halted at the top of the waterfall, within 

 sound of another which we heard tumbling from the hills above us to the east- 

 ward. The path to-day continued ascending and very bad, either soft with long 

 grass, or rocky and uneven and extremely tortuous ; but the Careens say it is 

 the only pass through this part of the hills ; that elephants, horses and bullocks 

 formerly travelled it with loads, and that it was the route of the Burman army 

 in 1790. Passed some of the large bamboos peculiar to this country, some 

 catechu, and some of the tree with the sap of which the Careens poison their 

 arrows. The rest of the jungle consisted of common jungle trees, immense 

 creepers, and the common bamboos ; tracks of elephants and wild hogs were 

 numerous, but no marks of the rhinoceros, which is confined to the more level 

 part of" the country where grass is abundant. 



" lyth. Direction North, 55 West. Time, 3 hours, 15 minutes; distance, 

 8 miles. 



" 7. 30. Path along the stony bed of a stream. 



" 7. 55. Skirt a ravine to the eastward. 



" 8. 30. Crossed the Keung Cank [i , or crooked stream, eight or ten times 

 running in various directions. 



" 9. Path a little better, but repeatedly crossed by the Keung Cank. 



" 9. 45. Halted on the banks of the Ween Wee 19 , a small stream 15 or 20 

 feet wide, which falls iuto the Thau?ig-Ein 2 ° to the north-eastward. The path 

 to-day was wet and bad ; the jungle thick. No marks of inhabitants. Were 

 joined in the evening by four Musulmans, who, together with seven who accom- 

 panied us, and five sepoys, make the party amount to forty-two persons. Those 

 who joined us to-day came by the Gyne 21 road in nine days from Maulamyne, five 

 by water to Daggue 22 , and four by land. They represented the road as bad, 

 and hilly, only accessible to people unincumbered, but inhabited by Careens, five 

 or six of whose villages they had passed. 



" 2Qth. Direction North, 35 East. Time, 2 hours ; distance, 4 miles. 



" 7. 30. Crossed the Ween Wee, and ascended a rather steep hill and pro- 

 ceeded along an ascending path, which appears as if cut along the face of the 

 hill on the bank of a ravine 300 or 350 feet deep, but clothed with small trees 

 and verdure, as are all the hills, even those which ar» nearly perpendicular. 



" 8. Descending along a similar path through a jungle of the large bamboos ; 

 paths particularly good. 



" 9. 45. Descended along the rather steep bed of a stream, water ancle deep ; 

 path extremely bad. — 9. 55. Came to the bank of the Thaing-Ein 2Z (called by 

 the Shans May-pmoie) river, wide 160 or 180 feet ; moved a short way down 

 the western bank, north 20 east, in the direction of its course, and crossed 

 over to the eastern side by assistance of a boat and some bamboo rafts. I had 

 been led by the guide to believe that we should be met here by some chiefs of 

 the Zimmay country with elephants, &c. to assist us in transporting the bag- 

 gage and presents, and to accelerate our movements towards their capital ; they 

 had, however, decamped eight or nine days before our arrival, and we took pos- 



