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in a deep ravine, with a high rocky hill E. ; travel up its bank, and at 12h. 

 10m. cross it just below the water-fall, or Jung- Jung- Khay, little more 

 than knee-deep. The fall we saw was not more than three or.four feet, 

 but a little higher up there is a fall of much greater height ; the stream 

 divides some way above where we crossed, and forming a small island, 

 joins again a short way below ; the branches are of nearly the same 

 size, both of which we cross ; we then pass up it to the west, and at a 

 short distance from it, at 12h. 20m., cross the Karong-tan, running 

 down to join the Meeka-that ; and at 12h. 40m. halt on the east side of 

 the stream, about the same size as the Meeka-that. The people sent for 

 rice have not returned, and the elephants and one-half of the rest of 

 the people have not been able to come up, so that the party here to- 

 night amounts in all to only sixteen or eighteen, and had it not been 

 for a wind-fall of some yams in the jungle just before halting, we 

 should have had nothing to eat; as it was, there were only some small 

 knives to dig them with, and the depth the roots run in the earth is 

 about three or four feet ; my tent is also in the rear. 



January 3rd. — Three Pagodahs, 4h. 10m., ten miles. Elephants 

 and people did not come up till 8 o'clock, when having breakfasted 

 on the roots mentioned yesterday, and fern-leaves, we left the ground 

 at 10 o'clock, and marching along a good path, over ground a little 

 undulating, with a high precipitous hill east, at lOh. 35m., the 

 jungle composed of high trees and nearly free from underwood, halted 

 at Enganoo, a small run of water at the foot of a descent from the 

 road, a little after one, to dinner ; as I was told there was no water at 

 this halting place, and I wished to pass the night here, to enable me to 

 get an observation of the distance between the moon and a star. 

 Started again at 4 o'clock, march along a good path in high tree jungle, 

 with occasional patches of bamboo underwood, till 5h. 10m., where some 

 rocks protrude through the surface and the rocky hills at a short distance 

 east of the path ; 5h. 20m. pass some water ; and 5h. 40m,, just as it was 

 getting dark, lost our path, and with some difficulty by firing muskets 

 which were answered by the mahout (the elephants not having halt- 

 ed as we did), in half an hour reached the three Pagodahs, over broken, 

 rocky, wet ground ; the sky became clouded, and we had a few drops 

 of rain till 10 p. m., when the night became beautifully clear. The 

 ground on which the three Pagodahs, so called, though they are only 

 three heaps of loose stones, are situated, is of considerable height, being 

 the centre of the range. The water on the opposite side runs in opposite 

 directions, marking the old boundary between the Siamese and Bir- 

 mans; the water on the eastern, or Siamese side, falling by the 



