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computation sixty-nine miles. T could not find out the site of old 

 Zummee, a fort or stockade from which the river takes its name, 

 and which in Captain O'Brien's map is placed somewhere here. The 

 Talyngs and Karens would not, or could not, tell me. These people 

 seldom speak the truth, when questioned respecting the country 

 they live in. The Karens especially are the most anuoying in this 

 respect, but whether they mislead purposely, or from sheer stupi- 

 dity, is a question most difficult to determine. At 11.30 a. m. 

 came to for a meridian Observation. Left again at 25m. p. m. At 

 2 p. M. we passed the first scour or rapid. The banks still muddy : 

 but shingly bottom at intervals. At 3h. 30m. p. m. reached Kapd, 

 a little Karen settlement of two houses. Some children were 

 squatting down, looking at the wonders coming on shore from the 

 boats. They, both boys and girls, were very pretty and interesting, 

 and clothed in long shirts, like the calico night shirts little boys 

 used to be clad in when put to bed. Great numbers of Garpophaga 

 Sylvatica (the "imperial pigeon" of Moulmein) flying about. We 

 shot five: a great addition to our dinuer, for these birds are of 

 excellent flavor. To-day's course S. S. E., run sixteen miles. 



February ($th. — Thermometer 64° at 7 a. m. Hot and muggy to 

 the feel. Kapd, Latitude 15° 53' 13'' N: ; Longitude 98<> 12' E. 



Remarked two very fiue Gaur skins belonging to a Mooksho 

 or hunter, who had killed them on the Wenyau river, and left them 

 here, together with a heap of horribly offensive barbecued meat for 

 sale. The Karens especially delectate in this kind of carrion. 



Weighed at lh. 30m. p. m. River winding and stream strong 

 and shallow in parts. It is now very clear, but mud has not 

 eutirely disappeared. Saw some monstrous limestone rocks about 

 fifteen or twenty miles to the westward. They proved to be the 

 " Alanteya" a range on the east bank of the Wenyau, and must be 

 above two thousand feet in height. Reached Shanzoo at 4h. 35m. 

 p. M. ; run nine miles ; course S. by E. 



Shanzoo or Nyoung Zummee is a pretty cleared spot, with a few 

 very neat houses, pleasantly shaded by large peepul trees, and 

 overlooking the stream from a high retired bank. The village is 

 peopled by a colony of Shans from Kyouk-houng to the Southward, 

 an intelligent and interesting people. The community had formed 



