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skirting the water through dense wet jungle. About noon we 

 struck off from the right bank over a low hill to the Loglai, a 

 shallow but very rapid stream about eighty yards broad. It seem- 

 ed advisable to camp early, in order to construct better shelter than 

 usual, as rain threatened ; so we halted for the night on the sand 

 on the bank of the Loglai about half a mile below a large poong> 

 or salt-ooze. Distance this day about ten miles. 



During the whole of the next day our course lay down the bed 

 of the Loglai, and we made very slow progress at first over the 

 enormous boulders and rocks of sandstone ; but the river became 

 larger as we advanced, receiving much additional water from 

 numerous small streams flowing into it on either side. Towards 

 evening large rocks and boulders were less frequently met with, and 

 we got on faster over the sand and shingle ; we stopped at the 

 mouth of a little stream called Kysoo, having travelled eleven or 

 twelve miles. Here the Loglai is navigable for canoes, and the 

 extreme width of its bed exceeds a hundred yards. 



On the 12th leaving the Loglai we ascended the Kysoo for two 

 hours, then crossing a low hill came on the Namlip, a stream similar 

 to the Kysoo, and travelled down its bed till evening, camping on its 

 bank. Distance about sixteen miles. The path during the whole 

 day was good. The beds of both streams are composed of shingle 

 .and gravel with few large rocks. The forest, as on the Assam side, 

 is composed of very large trees, and the undergrowth of jungle is 

 impenetrably thick. 



On the morning of the 1 3th, we found there was barely rice 

 enough in the camp to give each man one meal, so it was necessary 

 to force the pace, in order to get into a village as soon as possible. 



Following the Namlip for about an hour we reached its conflu- 

 ence with the Yoongsoom, a stream of the same size. For four 

 hours the path led up the Yoongsoom, occasionally skirting the 

 water through very heavy and extremely wet jungle until that 

 stream became so small as to be untraceable, when crossing a piece 

 of high lying forest land we came on the Yoongmoi, a somewhat 

 larger stream than either of the two former. About two hours' 

 walk down the bed of the Yoongmoi brought us to the Namyoong, 

 a river not much inferior in size to the Loglai, but deeper and less 



