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out any coolies at all, situated on a mountain, and in a sea of 

 forest and hills; some of the same tribe of men who accompanied 

 the Shan detachment served them the same trick. The Shans there- 

 fore left their grain at Kareabonglo and pushed on for Beren. 



The chief here promised to give us thirty coolies, which added to 

 those the interpreter had brought up with the baggage, and the guard 

 that had been left behind, enabled me to carry eight days grain. 



On the 21st February, left Kareabonglo, having been detained for 

 the want of coolies three days. At 10° 35' a. m. by a good path went 

 over some undulating ground, and then gradually ascended at 1 p. m. 

 to the Dadakee stream, which is about forty yards wide, with fine clear 

 cold water gushing through large round pebbles; it falls into the 

 Tamakee or Dhunsiree. Ascending, we went along by an excellent 

 path till we came to the Inchurkee river, another stream of nearly equal 

 size to the Dadakee, discharging itself into the Tamakee. Passing it 

 we had alternatively good and steep paths till we had passed over 

 a plain and up the bed of a rocky rivulet. We then ascended and 

 passed over the hill on which Umbolo, or Juckong, is situated ; we left 

 this village out of sight on our left, and encamped in very good huts, 

 erected for us by the chief Okonah at 7 p- m. Umbolo consists of 

 about eighty or a hundred houses. The Nagas hereabout are a much 

 finer race than those of the Cachar Hills ; and the colour of the 

 eastern Nagas is a much more wholesome brown than of those in the 

 vicinity of Goomegogoo, who are more of an ochre colour. The chief 

 brought down eggs, &c, and relieved those men who had come from Ka- 

 reabonglo by another band. He seemed quite delighted at the idea 

 of the Angamees, the tyrants of the Hills, being put down; and collected 

 twenty maunds of grain for us, which however we could not take with 

 us as we had no porters. I was informed by a Muniporee (who had 

 been captured whilst young, and sold to a Naga of this village, and 

 had married a Naga girl) that there was a road from this to Assam 

 in five days via Sumoogoding. The distance from this to the village 

 we had left (Kareabonglo) is about 12 or 13 miles, and there are a 

 good many hills to go over. 



February 22d. We left at 10° 20' a. m. and crossed a small stream, 

 and an hour afterwards ascended the great range to the village of 

 Unggong, from whence a most commanding view is disclosed of the 

 low hills up to and beyond Tooleeram's country, with the course of 

 the Dhunsiree or Tamakee. The hill on which stands Sumoogoding 

 is plainly visible, as also the whole of the Angamee valley, and par- 

 tially grass covered hills. The people of this village treated us civilly, 

 and collected grain (rice) for us of a very good kind. The village consists 



