696 An account of some of the Petty States [Nor. 



No duty will be levied on imports. The duties on cattle to be as at Labong : — 

 elephants one tical ; horses free of duty ; muskets and slaves are alone prohibit- 

 ed being taken out of the country ; — offenders from Laboung shall be given up, 

 and the people of this district harbouring them punished. He said our presents 

 of muskets was a certain mark of friendship, and that he intended to send fifty 

 cattle to the Commissioner ; and as I could not take them with me, he request- 

 ed that I might arrange to leave some one to take charge of them. 



" 2Ath. I went to take leave of the Tso-boa, who received me nearly alone 

 in an outer hall ; gave me the letter for the Commissioner, and was most friend- 

 ly in his professions. His house consists of three wooden ranges of about fifty 

 feet wide, (their length I could not see,) the brick hall standing across the ends, 

 in which I was formerly received, and the small one in which I saw him to-day. 

 Soon after my return to the taydau or zayat, Chow Maha Neut came with 

 a message from Chow-Houa to set my mind at ease regarding the cattle and 

 trade generally ; that every facility should be given to purchase cattle, and the 

 trade should be perfectly free and unrestricted ; that it was not becoming to be 

 bounden by promises, but that we would see hereafter the strength of their friend- 

 ship. He regretted that he had not seen me on my last visit, that my stay this 

 time was so short, and requested I would return for a longer stay next fine wea- 

 ther, &c. &c. I left Zimmay at half past 4 p. M. on the 24th, and reached La- 

 bong at 10. The walls of the inner town of Zimmay are 800 fathoms from east 

 by west and 1000 from north to south, all of brick, and a ditch and rampart 

 all round. The outer wall, which reaches from the north-east to the south-west 

 corner, is circular and upwards of 1800 fathoms, one-half of brick, the other of 

 wood with a rampart round the brick part, and a ditch surrounding the whole. 

 The ditches when in repair, (which they do not appear to be now,) can be filled 

 from the river. The town is situated four or five miles from the eastern foot of 

 the Bya-tha-Dy¥ 0i hill, the highest in the range, and between it and the hill is 

 another small single-walled fort about the size of Laboung, called Moung-Soon- 

 dank 1 " 5 , (city of the flower gai-den.) All the houses in Zimmay above the poor- 

 est of the people are surrounded by compounds fenced in, in which are cocoanut, 

 arica, betel, bamboo, and other useful trees, with a great variety of flowers and 

 flowering shrubs, which are watered by a stream of clear water brought from 

 the hill. The valley in which this town and Laboung both stand, is little less 

 than one day from east to west, and little more than three from north to south. 

 Much of the valley near the town is under cultivation, which is all prepared by 

 irrigation, and the grain is transplanted, yielding upwards of one hundred-fold, 

 though the fields are never left fallow." 



Dr. R. quitted Laboung on the 29th. On the 9th May the rains 

 set in, and continued almost without intermission during the remain- 

 der of his journey. He arrived at Maulamyne on the 21st May, 

 suffering greatly from the exposure ; most of his followers ill, (sever- 

 al of them died shortly after,) and the elephants completely knocked 

 up by the difficulties of the road. 



dr. Richardson's third visit, 1835. 

 Dr. R. was directed on this occasion to extend his visits to some 

 of the other Shan States, and also to th e tribe of Red Kaffens 106 on the 



