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a really valuable and carefully tended garden or orchard, about four 

 acres in area, and well stocked with plantains, jacks, mangoes, 

 limes or oranges, chillies, and cotton. Of the last however the 

 chief cultivation was round the village. These Shans have a 

 singular appearance, from their shaving their heads all but the 

 vertex, on which the hair is allowed to grow in a patch to about 

 two inches in length, so that each man looks as if he had ornamented 

 himself with a shoe brush, on the top of his skull. There were 

 several Hoolocks (Hylobatis lar) dark colored Lungoors (Preshytes 

 JPhayrei) and large squirrels (Sciurus bicolor) on the huge trees over 

 our heads ; the branches of which were also crowded with different 

 species of the Treron (green pigeons), Carpophaga Sylvatica, and 

 one or two large hornbills (Buceros Cavatus). They had all become 

 so familar with the presence of men (in the shape of the quiet 

 peaceable Shans) that it was not till after several shots from our 

 ruthless guns that the animals, both bird and beast, departed to 

 safer precincts. The air has been close and oppressive, and we had 

 some thunder and lightning at night. 



February 7th. — Nyoung Zummee. Latitude 15° 48' 46" N. ; 

 Longitude 98° 13' 15" E. 



We started at 25m. P. m. The river very picturesque, from its 

 high wooded banks and clear rippling stream. We met fewer rapids 

 or scours than yesterday, and occasionally reaches of very deep and 

 tranquil water. At 4h. 35m. p. m. arrived at Thalaya Zy'k. Course 

 S. by E. ; run ten miles. 



This spot we found to be a mere landing place on the east bank, 

 from whence a path leads to the wretched scattered hamlets of the 

 Karens a mile or so inland. We took up our quarters in a bamboo 

 zeyat which the Goung Gyoup or Tahsiidar of the division (who 

 accompanied us) had caused to be furbished up for our use, in a 

 partially cleared space of some forty yards diameter, surrounded by 

 dense thickets and forest. The spot was some fifty or sixty feet 

 above the river which forms here a beautiful deep pool, full of fine 

 fish, which sport here quite unheeded by the Karens, who prefer this 

 food in the half salted, half putrid state, in which it is sold in the 

 Moulmein markets. The truth I suspect is, they are too indolent 

 to be at the trouble of catching them. 



