168 GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS AND EXPLORATIONS. 



360 square miles surveyed topographically on the ^-inch scale in 

 the south-east of Manipur, in continuation of the survey of 1881-82 ; 

 the whole of the Kubo valley and large portions of the Lekayain 

 district, comprising an area of 3,924 square miles, "was surveyed on 

 the J-inch scale, as -well as part of the course of the Chind-win river. 

 Colonel Woodthorpe was seized with a bad attack of fever, which 

 lasted during May, but Mr. Ogle energetically continued the 

 triangulation and succeeded in effecting a junction with Captain 

 Hobday's series, brought up from Mandalay. 



In recognition more especially of his services in Burma Colonel 

 Woodthorpe was appointed a Companion of the Order of the 

 Bath, a distinction which afforded much gratification to all those who 

 had watched that officer's record of services in Afghanistan, Assam, 

 Upper Burma, and Hunza, and of other dangerous enterprises. 



During 1887-88 Major Hobday extended the triangulation from 

 Mandalay northwards to Bhamo, while Captain Jackson and two 

 surveyors accompanied a column despatched from Fort Stedman 

 into the Southern Shan States. Reconnaissances were made 

 towards the Salwen river, and its course fixed at two points. A 

 highly satisfactory connexion with Major Hobday's triangulation 

 was effected, the total circuit of the combined reconnaissances being 

 over 600 miles. A portion of the route traversed by the southern 

 column had been followed by the party accompanying the Salwen 

 expedition in 1864—65,* and the work then executed by the late 

 Mr. F. Feilden, of the Geological Survey Department, was tested, 

 and its general accuracy fully established. 



The Southern Shan States expedition was altogether a great 

 success; the British were received everywhere in the most friendly 

 manner, and its effect was to re-establish peace instead of the 

 inter-tribal wars till then prevalent. 



To the Northern Shan column Sub-Surveyor Faida Ali was 

 attached, and the area mapped by him amounted to 3,425 square 

 miles, north-east of Mandalay and stretching eastward to the Salwen 

 river, which here as well as in the upper part of its course flows 

 closely to its western water-shed, leaving a wide expanse of country 

 beyond to the share of the Irawadi. 



In the country west of the Irawadi a large area was recon- 

 noitred in the Chindwin, Pakokku, and Minbu districts by four 

 columus which advanced into the Yaw country. Mr. Wyatt, who 



* Srr the Memoir on the Indian Survey;., 2nd ed., p. 229, 



