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entered into certain arrangements with the chiefs, who consented to all 

 I proposed, and also to bring to me the refugees of the village of Kis- 

 soogiri on the following day at Bengal Katta. As there was now no 

 probability of our meeting with any opposition, I determined to return 

 to Bengal Katta, and wait the result of my negociations, which we ac- 

 cordingly did, and reached our standing camp the following day. After 

 waiting the prescribed time, as the chiefs did not make their appearance, 

 or send me any explanation, I determined to proceed at once, and make 

 the enquiry myself, and this time not to stop short of Kissoogiri ; and on 

 the morning of the 27th idem we commenced our march. 



The route into the Dusannee country, and that by which all the Gar- 

 rows of this mehaul descend to the Bengal Katta haut, lies from the 

 latter place for the first two miles over a high plain to the Burmese 

 settlement on the Rungi river. Marching along the west bank of this 

 stream for about a quarter of a mile, you come to an extraordinary ridge 

 of granite rocks, which rise like a wall out of the ground, and running 

 across the road to the bank of the river seem to form a natural boundary 

 between the hill country you are now entering and the plains you leave 

 behind. The same extraordinary convulsion which threw up this ridge 

 of stone, as if aware that such would be required, has cleft a doorway 

 through it, which although narrow for elephants, is easily passed by any 

 other laden animals. About \ a mile up the same bank of the river 

 the road crosses at a ford immediately below the first falls of the Rungi 

 river, which are caused by another wall of stone similar to that just 

 described, which runs completely across the river and disappears under 

 the hills on either side. The fall however commences some hundred 

 or more yards above, and the river is seen dashing and bounding along 

 over every impediment, till it reaches the barrier, when with one mighty 

 effort it leaps into tranquility below, from whence, as if tired and ex- 

 hausted with its exertions through the hills, it winds its way quietly 

 along till it finds repose in the waters of the Jingiram. The route now 

 lies up the east bank, sometimes along the edge of the water through 

 massive boulders of granite, and at others over the precipitous slopes 

 of the little hills that restrain the course of this impetuous stream. The 

 road never leaves the margin, except in one instance below Buldagiri, 

 when it cuts across a promontory to save a considerable detour by the 

 river. Our encamping ground was fixed on the west bank of the river 



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