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to wait for the weather clearing up, and proceeded at once towards 

 Moulmein. This was a most mortifying conclusion to our journey : 

 for Mooley-it is in fact the only object of much interest in the 

 country : and moreover we lost the benefit of his botanical know- 

 ledge in the very place where it would have been the most advan- 

 tageously exercised. 



The sun has approached the zenith too nearly now to allow of a 

 Meridian Observation in the artificial horizon, so took the latitude 

 by 2 p. m. altitudes and made it 16° 8' 58" N., and Longitude by 

 Acct. 98° 12' 30" E. ; Thermometer 85° at 1 p. m., at 9.30 a. m 78*. 

 Aneroid 30.1. 



February 24<th. — Determined to pay Mooley-it, a second visit 

 (I had been there in February, 1855,) to verify its altitude by 

 boiling water, my first observation having been made with inferior 

 apparatus. Set off at 7 a. m. crossing the Kyik rivulet, through a 

 flat forest for four miles to the Karen village of Kyik, a mile beyond 

 which we began the ascent of the Kyik hills, a range leading to the 

 Mooley-it mountain. It was severe labour at first, being up through 

 Karen clearings on which the sun blazed without the grateful 

 intervention of foliage. By 12 o'clock I was quite knocked up and 

 mounted my elephant, and at 1 p. M. we reached Teewap'hado 

 (" water and great bamboos"), the altitude of which I made by the 

 Aneroid to be 1236 above Kyik. The air was here sensibly cooler 

 and more bracing. Thermometer at 1 p. M. 83° our encampment 

 was in a hollow on the hill side, where trickled a small rill, which 

 our numerous elephants and their unruly drivers soon rendered 

 filthy. The thick forest shut out the view : but by occcasional 

 glimpses I could see we had been journeying along a narrow ridge, 

 which ascended the whole way, and still kept ascending ahead of us. 

 To our feet both Northward and Southward ran parallel ridges at a 

 distance of about three miles. The whole buried under dense 

 jungle and enormous trees. The path we came by was a mere track, 

 requiring in places great caution in the elephants : and walking on 

 foot was most irksome by reason of the ground being thickly strewn 

 with dead leaves, whose glazed surfaces made it abominably slippery 

 and added infinitely to the toil of the ascent — distance eleven miles. 



February 25th. — Off at 6h. 45m. a. m. and walked slowly, gun in 



