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" Q. Can men be procured about Mokree to assist you with your 

 boats ? 



" A. Plenty, at three and four annas per day. 



" Q. What water at commencement of the fall ? 



" A. Two hands (three feet), and above Mookree fall 4, 5, 6, 8, 

 10 and 12 hands, (as much as three fathoms.) 



" Q. How do you act coming back over the Mookree fall ? 



"A. Empty the boats at the fall, and as there is not then sufficient 

 water to float the boats for about four or five hundred feet, they are 

 launched along a smooth bed of stones, which are very slippery, being 

 covered with a grassy substance, and they are guided down the fall 

 with little trouble, when the boats being reloaded, proceed with ease to 

 Chaundode in two and three days. 



" Q. Have you ever seen or heard of boats in great danger of being 

 lost going up the fall ? 



(( A. No. 



" Q. Can boats go up above Dunneer? 



" A. Yes. 



" Q. Why is trade not carried on above that place? 



"A. Because of the thieves, who would not pay above half the 

 price they would bargain to give for what we carry. 



" I have measured one of the boats at Chaundode employed in the 

 trade to Mokree and above. Her length twenty-two feet, breadth four 

 feet and ten inches, depth two feet, her bottom quite flat. 



" August 20th. Reached Linnore, learnt there is a trade to Mokree 

 and above, their cargoes are carried to Chaundode in large boats, 

 when they are put into the toonies and proceed as afore-men- 

 tioned. 



" August 25th. Entered the Bowapearra Ghaut, where we met 

 with much difficulty from a heavy fresh and unfavorable winds. 

 On September 1st, we reached Ramnapore, since which time we got 

 pretty well, until the fresh commenced, which compelled us to return 

 to Baroche." 



Lieutenant Anderson (the report of whose journey between Mund- 



4th. Lieut. Ander- leysir and Tulluckwara has already been given,) 

 son m 1842, concludes the account of his trip as follows : — 



" I embarked at Tulluckwara on the morning of the 5th, and arrived 



