592 Note on the Map attached to [No. 102. 



" 30th. — Mr. Leal who had a compass and quadrant with him, finding that the 

 passage along the coast would be unnecessarily long and tedious, obliged the 

 boatmen to steer a more easterly course, and direct for the mouth of the Menan. 

 Towards evening a stiff breeze coming on, the boat, which had no keel, could not keep 

 her course, and was driven to leeward until 10 p. m., when she got aground 

 on the mud flats between the mouths of the Thachise and Menan rivers. 



" 3lst.—Got off the flat easily at 6 a.m. ; between 8 and 9 entered the Menan, 

 and shortly after anchored at the foot of Paknam. 



Extracted from Wilson's Burmese War. 



u The court of Siam having consented to release certain Burman prisoners, it was 

 thought advisable to send them back in charge of some confidential person ; accordingly 

 the first detachment, consisting of between five or six hundred persons, proceeded under 

 the superintendence of Mr. Leal. 



"The party left Bangkok on the 13th February 1826, in six junks. They sailed 

 from the bar on the 23rd, and on the 1st March, reached Bangnarom, a place on the 

 west coast of the Gulf of Siam, in about latitude 11* 50', from hence the route proceed- 

 ed overland. 



" The first day's march was, in the early part, over an indifferent road, but the greater 

 part was good, with pools of water at different places ; the second was also over a good 

 road, and terminated at a place where it branched off in two different directions, 

 the right leading to Bangthophan, the left to Mergui, and distinguished by two 

 large trees, one on the Mergui road, marked with two large crosses, and the other on 

 the Bangthaphan road, with four. 



" On the third day's march, the people suffered much inconvenience from want of 

 water, not a drop of which was encountered. Early on the morning of the fourth, 

 water was met with. The road here again divided into two, one leading to 

 the E. (W. ?) the other S.S.E. (S.S.W. ?) the latter terminating abruptly, at a short 

 distance, the former continuing to Mergui, and marked by a large stone. 



" The fifth day's march, came early to the foot of the Kasom mountain, along the 

 skirts of which ran a small rivulet ; the mountain was steep, and the ascent and 

 descent occupied the greater part of a fatiguing day. By 9 o'clock on the morning 

 of the following day, the party arrived at the boundary of the Burman and Siamese 

 states, marked by three tamarind trees ; the place is said to be called Sing-khow- 

 the-pe. In the afternoon, they halted at a pagoda, where the Burmese offered their 

 adorations. 



" The next day's march continued throughout the day along a good road to the banks 

 of the Tenasserim river, where the party constructed seventy-five bamboo floats, for the 

 purpose of completing the journey by water. According to impressions received on the 

 spot, the rivei- here was thought to be the main branch, but, according to the assertions 

 of the more intelligent among the Burmans, it is but a branch of the Tenasserim river. 

 The passage down the stream was very tardy, being much obstructed by trees in the 

 river. On the afternoon of the third day a fishing boat was seen, and dispatched to 

 Mergui, where the party arrived on the fifth day of their voyage, the 15th March. 



