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on a hill at the entrance are immensely large, and surround 

 a clump of fine fig and banyan trees.* 



We procured a good house after many delays, for the 

 people were far from obliging ; it was a clean, very long 

 cottage, with low thatched eaves almost touching the 

 ground, and was surrounded by a high bamboo paling that 

 enclosed out-houses built on a well-swept floor of beaten 

 earth. Within, the woodwork was carved in curious 

 patterns, and was particularly well fitted. The old lady to 

 whom it belonged got tired of us before two days were 

 over, and first tried to smoke us out by a large fire 

 of green wood at that end of the cottage which she 

 retained ; and afterwards by inviting guests to a supper, 

 with whom she kept up a racket all night. Her son, 

 a tall, sulky fellow, came to receive the usual gratuity 

 on our departure, which we made large to show we 

 bore no ill-will : he, however, behaved so scornfully, pre- 

 tending to despise it, that I had no choice but to 

 pocket it again; a proceeding which was received with 

 shouts of laughter, at his expense, from a large crowd of 

 bystanders. 



On the 30th of September we proceeded north-east 

 from Joowye to Nurtiung, crossing the watershed of 

 the Jyntea range, which is granitic, and scarcely raised 

 above the mean level of the hills; it is about 4,500 

 feet elevation. To the north the descent is at first 

 rather abrupt for 500 feet, to a considerable stream, 

 beyond which is the village of Nurtiung. The country 

 gradually declines hence to the north-east, in grassy hills, 



* In some tanks we found Hydropeltis, an American and Australian plant allied 

 to NympJicea. Mr. Griffith first detected it here, and afterwards in Bhotan, these 

 being the only known habitats for it in the Old World. It grows with Typlia, 

 A corns Calamus (sweet flag), Vallisneria, Potamogcton, Sparganium, and other 

 European water-plants. 



