450 Narrative of an Expedition into QJune, 



in the arrival of arms for the levy, and there was no certainty when 

 they might come, and as the season was fast approaching when troops 

 would be of little service in mountains, like those inhabited by the 

 Angamees. All the arms in Silchar were therefore put under repair, 

 and about thirty muskets with bayonets, furnished weapons to an 

 equal number of the levy, who, under a Jemadar, accompanied me 

 back. 



On the 19th I retraced my route of the 16th to Bhogurkonah, 

 where we halted. The next day, the 20th, I followed my former 

 route to Guabari, where the Bengalli coolies were to be relieved by 

 Caeharees. The inhabitants of the village being all away on our ar- 

 rival a great delay occurred, which obliged me to alter my course and 

 make a circuit to Agoosagong to get good encamping ground, where 

 we remained that day. The village consists of about fifteen or twenty 

 houses inhabited by Caeharees, who cultivate the lower hills under 

 the great range bordering the Cachar plain. 



January 21st. Started from Agoosagong at 8 a. m., and ascended a 

 high ridge adjoining the one we came by, and shortly afterwards re- 

 gained the old road, along which we continued till we reached the 

 Matura river, where we encamped. This route, I fancy, is impassable 

 in the rainy season, as it is frequently up the bed of the river. A 

 good one, however, might easily be made with little trouble, either at 

 the foot of the hills or on their summits. 



January 22d. Left at 8 a. m. and ascended the Bura-Ail range half 

 an hour afterwards, by a good path ; we reached the top in forty minutes, 

 from whence we quitted our former route from Poorahgong and con- 

 tinued along the summit of the great range by a very good path, 

 leaving Poorahgong on our right, and in the valley beneath. We fol- 

 lowed this route about an hour, and then by a long and pretty steep 

 descent crossed the Goomara-Deesa, and shortly afterwards the Longkli- 

 Deesa, both flowing from the great range into the Pytinga, parallel to 

 which we were going. We then entered the bed of the latter river, 

 and followed our former route over the Haflong hill to the stockade. 



January 23d. Some provisions that had been left behind the previ- 

 ous day arrived. 



January 24th. I visited the Goomegogoo Thannah on an height of 

 about 5000 or 6000 feet elevation, and took some bearings of peaks, 

 sources of rivers, and situations of villages in sight. I sent on the Shan 

 detachment this day with grain to Semker to relieve the coolies, and en- 

 able them to return and carry more grain with the Sebundy detachment. 

 Whilst here, I got in several villagers upon whose villages some of the 

 attacks had been made, and took down their depositions. The people 



