£08 An account of some of the Petty States [Oct*. 



the rice and a sort of vegetable stew are boiled in a joint of tbe bamboo, and 

 the latter served up in another split in form of a trough, round which they 

 squat with their rice on any leaf they can find large enough ; there is one shell 

 spoon in the stew which serves the whole party. This day's march was one of 

 much labour to the coolies : many of them were seven hours on the road. 



" 24th. Direction North, 20 West. Time, 3 hours, 15 minutes ; distance, 

 7 miles. 



" 7. 30. Proceeded along a worse path than usual, over a succession of hills, 

 many of them covered with paddy to the tops, which would indicate a very con- 

 siderable Careen population. The greater part of the hills this day were of 

 primitive sandstone. — 11. 10. Halted by a small stream at the foot of a hill. 

 " 25th. Direction North, 60 East. Time, 4 hours; distance 9 miles. 

 " 7. 30. Ascended a rather steep hill along a path much the same as we had 

 travelled for the last few days. — 9. 25. Marched ajong the bed of a stream about 

 knee deep ; the bottom rocky and broken, the water extremely cold, and the sun 

 hot and beating on our heads till 11. 30, when we halted on the banks of the 

 Moy-Gnow 28 river, (wide 150 or 160 feet) running to the northward and fall- 

 ing into the Mein-lunghi about one day above where the Thaung-Ein falls into 

 the same river. No marks of cultivation throughout this day's march. Passed 

 a number of teak and thet-tse trees : of the former there is an extensive forest 

 on the eastern bank of the Moy-Gnow, but the falls of the Thaluln render it 

 extremely difficult to transport it to the coast. The famous thet-tse varnish is 

 merely the juice of the tree, which exudes from notches made in the bark into 

 vessels placed to receive it, and is fit for use without further preparation. The 

 tree has somewhat the appearance of the bastard teak. Saw also several small car- 

 roway trees in the jungle. — One o'clock. After a flourish of gongs in the jungle 

 on the other side of the river, several Shans made their appearance, and a Burman 

 of the party pushed over to our side of the river on a bamboo raft, and after 

 ascertaining that I was not accompanied by an army, as had been reported by 

 the Careens, communicated the fact to those on the other side : four petty chiefs, 

 the heads of the party, then came over ; they said they had been sent by the 

 chief of Zarnmay to welcome me, and offered us their assistance for the 

 rest of the march. They dispatched a letter to Zammay to announce our 

 arrival, and begged us to remain one day on the present ground, assuring me 

 that they Lad five elephants for my use. These elephants were a very season- 

 able relief, as the people were much knocked up, and the nature of the paths 

 over steep hills or stony beds of small streams, had precluded the possibility 

 of my riding for a single march. 



"26^. Halted till some bamboo rafts were made to transport part of tbe 

 baggage, which could not be carried on the elephants down the Moy-Gnow. I 

 found that the chiefs who met me were part of the licensed robbers of Lnbong, 

 and one of them (a Burman formerly captured in one of their predatory expedi- 

 tions) was exceedingly anxious to excuse them for carrying off some of our 

 people last year, as they were mistaken for Burmans. The Careens brought 

 three pigs, some fowls, and rice, enough for the whole party : the Shans would 

 not allow me to pay for them ; hitherto every thing had been paid for that was 

 brought to us. 



" 27th. Direction North, 30 "West. Time, 5 hours, 30 minutes; distance, 

 15 miles. 



