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



hours in the day ; and since half past ten through a thick jungle. Our course has 

 been all round the compass, and I have been obliged to note its direction no 

 less than eighty times to get at any thing like a correct general direction ; we are 

 again on the banks of the river which we left this morning, the course of which 

 is even more tortuous than the road we have come. We are encamped on a 

 small level spot of a few hundred yards, surrounded by high hills ; the jungle 

 extremely thick, but aboundiug on the hills with deer of all sizes, cows, buffa- 

 loes, tigers, leopards, and rhinoceros. We passed the end of the road, which 

 runs more to the eastward, along which the bullocks are to come ; path is much 

 better, but there are no inhabitants in that direction. 



" 21s/. Direction South, 65 West. Time, 7 hours ; distance, 15 miles. 



" 9. 15. Proceeded along a narrow ascending path in thick jungle. — 4. 45. 

 Halted on the Mag-Koung 65 , wide 30, deep \i feet, pebbly bed, a short way 

 from /Tawoo 65 , a Careen village. The march to-day has been over a succession 

 of hills, some of which were nearly perpendicular, and I should think almost im- 

 passable for a loaded bullock, though the elephants have travelled with ease. The 

 path is well shaded, and there is abundance of water : indeed the jungle has generally 

 been so thick that we could only see a little of the path before us, and a ravine 

 or a hill close to the road ; the march on the whole was less disagreeable than 

 yesterday, having been more on the hills. Between 10. 20, and 10. 40, passed 

 a hill, on which there are a great many lofty cinnamon trees, the only ones known 

 by the Careens to exist on any of the hills, and are not at all prized by them ; 

 the hank is about two inches thick, and of good flavour, when fresh, but acquires 

 a bitter taste when dry. Passed some immense trees, called by the Burmans 

 Couck-Moo 67 , of which the canoes are made ; said to be large enough to make a 

 canoe for 5 or 600 baskets of paddy. 



" 22nd. Direction South, 40 West. Time, 2 hours, 30 minutes ; distance, 

 7 miles. 



" 9. Path pretty level ; jungle extremely close. — 9. 20. Along the bed of 

 the May-Koung, pebbly with large rolled mosses overhung by rocks 1 or 200 

 feet high. — 10. Jack trees ; said to be the site of an old city. — 11. 30. Halted 

 in a thick jungle with some betel-nut trees on the western bank of the May- 

 Koung. March nearly of the same character as the last two days, but the hills 

 less steep. 



" 23ra*. Direction South, 55 West. Time, 8 hours ; distance, 17 miles. 



"8. 4. Ascended. — 9. 10. Wound up the face of an extremely steep hill 

 from east to west, in a southern direction ; and at 9. 20 ascended along the 

 brow of the hill. — 11. 40. Crossed the May-Tia 68 , and proceeded along a ravine. 

 — 1. Recrossed the Tia. — 4.45. Halted on the cast bank of the May-Gnow, 

 wide 90 or 100 feet, running north, 20 west. The hills to-day, with the exception 

 of those on the 21st, were as steep as any we have crossed ; and our progress 

 slow and difficult ; some of the highest hills to-day had been cleared for paddy, 

 and the ground is said to be productive. Met a Zirnmay slave merchant return- 

 ing by the route ; he had six slaves, three of whom are about five years of age, 

 for each of whom he gave four bullocks. 



" 2Ath. We have been obliged to halt to-day till the old road between Mar- 

 taban, and this, which has grown up from disuse, be a little cleared by the 

 Careens for the next two marches, when it again joins the route followed by us 

 in our march up one day from the Thaung-Ein. 



