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\§tli. — Continued up the Dehing and camped at night at the mouth 

 of the Namchik river. 



20</i.— Above the confluence of the Dehing and Namchik rivers, the 

 main river is called Namroop. This day we travelled up the Namroop, 

 and camped a little below Sunkaph Purbut. 



21st. — Continued up the Namroop, which here runs through a 

 narrow gorge between Sunkaph Boom* and Miting-koo. Camped 

 at night at the mouth of a small stream called Namgoi. 



22nd. — As I found much time was lost in dragging my two small 

 canoes over the rapids, I resolved to leave them behind, and loading 

 my baggage on my elephants marched up the stream of the Namroop, 

 till I reached the Namphook village, which consists of eight Singfoo 

 houses. 



23 rd. — As this was the last village I should see, it was neces- 

 sary to lay in a stock of provisions. This day was spent in 

 bargaining for rice and in arranging with the able-bodied men of the 

 village to accompany me as guides. I had some difficulty in arrang- 

 ing with these men. It was necessary that they should consent to 

 act as porters if required, and Singfoos have a particular objection to 

 carrying loads for other persons. 



2ith. — Started from Namphook village, course due south across 

 the Namroop over some hilly land, covered with forest, two hun- 

 dred feet higher than the bed of the river. After a two hours' 

 walk, we came again on to the Namroop and waded up its stream till 

 the evening, leaving the bed of the stream now and then at the bends 

 of the river, in order to keep as straight a course as possible. Both banks 

 of the river were covered with a forest of immense timber trees, and un- 

 derneath the larger trees was a rank growth of jungle through which 

 we could not have made our way, except for the tracks of wild elephants. 

 Along these tracks, when it was necessary to leave the bed of the 

 river, we could walk, and with a little cutting of the creeping and climb- 

 ing plants, the ponies could be made to follow very well, but the tracks 

 were neither high enough nor broad enough to admit of elephants 

 with their loads passing along them, so I sent back my elephants to 

 the village taking on as little baggage as possible, partly carried by 

 the Singfoos and partly by the ponies. The Namroop was for the 

 * In Singfoo, boom is a mountain, koo a hill. 



