384 The hot springs of Pat in the Tavoy district. [No. 4, 
and after a generally direct Hast and West course falls into the sea 
about 6 miles below the village of Kyaukhtsay. 
Pai Dap the nearest village to the springs, is about 5 miles East, 
and inland from Kyaukhtsay ; and thence to the great hot springs on 
the “ hot-water stream,” the distance is about 104 miles: the direction 
of the road is generally Hast for about 8 miles, and then Southerly, 
up the course of the hot stream for about 2 miles. 
I visited these streams about a week ago in company with the 
Rev. Charles Parish, Chaplain of Moulmein, and Lieutenant Harrison, 
Deputy Commissioner of Mergui. The following is a short and I fear 
unscientific account of the visit. 
On the 21st January we left Kyaukhtsay about 6 a. M. and reached 
Pai Dap a 7.30. This is a neat village of ten houses, pleasantly 
situated on the North bank of the Pai river, about N. EH. from 
Kyaukhtsay. Vt has a pretty good Zayat (rest house). The path 
hence runs about East ; and generally through thick jungle. A good 
deal of cutting down was necessary, to open it up in some places: 
ground generally smooth and level. We halted after a brisk walk of 
2 hours and 5 minutes, at a shady spot on the Paz stream, about 74 
miles from Pai Dap, and started again between 2 and 3 P.M. We 
were told that we were now about half way between Pai Dap and the 
stream : and before leaving Pai Dap we had been led to expect that we 
had a 20-mile march before us. 
The distance from this halting-place proved te be only about 
3 miles. The path much the same as in the first part of the journey, 
with one or two bad bits : it was rather more up and down, and crossed 
the Pai river in one or two deep places. The latter part, perhaps 
half of it, was up the course of the hot-water stream :—and we came 
to hot water, (that is the water of the streare was hot), ¢ of a mile 
before we reached the springs. 
A heavy column of steam, which I at first mistook for the smoke 
of camp fires, or burning jungle, shewed us the whereabouts of the 
hot springs, some 100 yards off. The last part of the path was 
a steep ascent, but we estimated that we had not ascended altegether 
more than 300 feet trom Pat Dap. The total distance thence was 
about 104 miles. We found the springs in a narrow granite rock 
channel, through which a shallow stream falls in little cascades, divided 
by small pools. The most striking feature of the scene was the jet of 
