JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Journal of a Mission from the Supreme Government of India to 

 the Court of Siam. — By Dr. Richardson. 1 



January 22we?.-^Long-song-noi, 4h. 50m. , fifteen miles. Left 

 Fata-kan, and proceed in a south-west direction along the level 

 towards the hills near the foot of which the path lies till 9h. 35m. 

 when we ascend a rocky hill, and cross a small stream ; pass 

 a large Kareen village, which seems a permanent residence of 

 a portion of that wandering tribe ; their houses were large, their 

 dress better, and the women were seated in the house more 

 clean and neat in their person than usual ; they were the first 

 Kareens we had seen whose forefathers had been inhabitants of 

 this part of the country. The village which was surrounded 

 by high, abrupt rocky hills, consisted of seven or eight houses, 

 with their betel vines and jack fruit trees close round the 

 houses; from this we descend in a ravine till llh. 25m. 

 where we cross a second run of water ; from this the coun- 

 try is more open (the valley of the May-nam-noi may be 

 three miles across) and rocky, the trees small and stunted, 

 with little or no foliage, affording no shade from the sun ; the 

 latter part of the inarch was excessively hot. At 12h. 15m. 

 we crossed the small dry bed of a stream forming the boundary 

 between Tata-kan and Long-tsong ; these towns, if they may be 



1 Continued from p. 1036, vol. viii. 

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