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Report of an Expedition into the Mishmee Hills to the north-east of 

 Sudyah. By Lieutenant E. A. Rowlatt, 2\st Regt. N. I. In a letter 

 to Major F. Jenkins, Governor General's Agent, N. E. Frontier, 

 dated Saikwah, 1st January 1845. Communicated by the Government 

 of India. 



I now do myself the pleasure of forwarding to you an account 

 of the expedition from which I have just returned, and at the same time 

 beg to submit a map of the country through which I passed, to this 

 I have added some portion of the country more to the north than to 

 where I penetrated, and which is therefore merely laid down from de- 

 scriptions gathered from the Mishmees who have visited those parts. 



On Thursday, the 21st of November last, I quitted the port of Saik- 

 wah by water, and on the following day being joined by two Sudyah 

 Beekhyahs, Deena Hazaree and Baleah Boca, who were to accompany 

 me during the trip. At the mouth of the Koondil river, where I had 

 remained the night, we took our final departure, myself in a small 

 khail boat, and the rest of my party in the small fishing boats of the 

 country, which, for the sake of ascending the rapids of the Burhampooter, 

 are made particularly light and handy. 



As it was our first day, we were not able to start very early ; and I 

 found that the evening was drawing to a close before we had long pass- 

 ed the mouth of the Tainga-panee. Up to this point the stream continues 

 pretty tranquil, although a perceptible difference is observable in the 

 rate at which it flows ; and as from this point upwards the banks and 

 islands are almost entirely formed of stones* washed down from the 

 mountains, the water from hence is most beautifully clear and trans- 

 parent. 



Nov. 23rd. — In pursuance with the directions I had given the 

 previous evening, the boats moved off by sunrise, and by 9 a.m. we 

 reached the Khamptee village of the Kaptan Gohain at Choonpoora, where 

 I stopped for a short time, and again moving forward, arrived by the 

 evening within a short distance of the mouth of the Dhollee river, which 

 I got to early the next morning. Being anxious to see a copper Tem- 



* These pebbles and boulders are all of limestone, and furnish all the lime used in 

 the public works in Upper Assam. The limestone is a grey crystalirized rock just 

 exactly the same as the marble used as flags in the Government House. I have never 

 seen it in situ.— F. J. 



