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



" 8. 15. Marched to-day aloDg a path better than any we have seen since 

 crossing the Moy-Gnow. 



"II. Passed the village of Bowtaa 51 ; 12 or 14 houses surrounded by a small 

 patch of cultivation. Having crossed the Mem-fara^eeriverfour times to-day. — 

 12. 25. Halted in a rather extensive patch of paddy stubble belonging to the village 

 Kapa 32 , which is distant a mile and a half. Nearly the whole of the country between 

 this and the village, which is in a small valley, has last" year been under cultiva- 

 tion ; all the rice in the country is of that glutinous description called by the 

 Burmans kanghuyeen ; the only hard rice that can be obtained is from the 

 Careens, who left us to-day, and by whom we have been accompanied from the 

 neighbourhood of one village to that of another since leaving the Thalween. They 

 are a fair, well-liuibed, athletic race, superior in appearance generally to the 

 Talines and Burmans, but have been oppressed from time immemorial by Talines, 

 Burmans, and Shans, whoever happened to have the ascendance. They huve 

 been obliged to furnish provisions, erect huts, cut the jungle from the edges of 

 the path, and furnish guides to all travellers crossing the hills, the latter of 

 which services they performed for us, and were much surprized at being paid 

 for whatever they furnished us. They annually shift their habitation, and if 

 they pitch upon a site near a path, it is immediately shut up. In addition to 

 the other inhabitants of the jungle, we to-day saw marks of rabbits in consi- 

 derable number. 



" January 1st. Direction North, 20 West. Time, 4 hours, 50 minutes ; dis- 

 tance, 14 miles. 



" 9. 45. Proceeded along a good path through the paddy grounds of the 

 village of Kapa, which we passed at 10. 20, consisting of about thirty or forty 

 houses precisely in the Burman style, with one or two Pungee 33 houses, but no 

 pagodas, &c. — 11. 25. Passed the first pagoda we have seen since leaving Thal- 

 ween, perfectly dilapidated. Near a small village saw 70 or 100 heads of good 

 cattle in a rather extensive paddy field. — 2. 35. After traversing a grassy plain 

 intersected with belts of jungle, halted on the south bank of a small stream run- 

 ning to the westward and falling into the Mein-lung-hee river about quarter of a 

 mile from the village of Mein-lung-hee. The path to-day was well marked, and there 

 was more appearances of cultivation than we had before seen. We only crossed 

 the Mein-lung-hee river three times. The rise of water in the rains, from the marks 

 on the trees and banks in this river, cannot be less than 30 or 40 feet. 



" The Shans being anxious to detain me on the road till an answer is received 

 to the letter notifying my arrival, dispatched on the day I met them, I have 

 consented, as I cannot well proceed without their assistance, to remain here two 

 days." 



The town, or rather village, of Mein-lung-hee at which Dr. R. arrived 

 this day, is a collection of huts about 200 in number, scattered over 

 an extensive plain of 3| or four miles in width, through which the 

 river of the same name runs, having its rise about fifteen or twenty- 

 days' journey north, and pursuing a southerly course nearly parallel 

 to the Salween till joined by the Thoung-yeen, when the united streams 

 take a westerly course and enter the Salween. The town is under 

 the jurisdiction of Labong 3 \ from whence a governor is appointed, 



