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On our return to Sadiya, I found Captain Bedford ready to depart 

 on his visit to the Kund. Affairs with the Abors were precisely in statu 

 quo, and the enmity between the Khamtis and northern Mishmis rendered 

 the Dibonrr unsafe. I resolved therefore to return to the Luri Gohains 

 village, and thence endeavour to push on towards the E. and S. and visit 

 the Irdwadi. 



On my second visit, and proposition, actually to set out in an adven- 

 ture to the Bor Khamti country, which had been talked of before, when 

 we were at a loss for provisions, as perfectly feasible, the Luri Gohain 

 and his people informed me of various obstacles which had not yet been 

 alluded to. The snow on the high range of mountains to be surmounted 

 in the route, could not be passed before the month of April or May, (and 

 there was truth in this objection,) the country was not prepared for such 

 a trip — -very great risk would be run by venturing amongst the Singfos, 

 who were removed from the sphere of our influence, or rather from that 

 proximity to our force which should incline them to dread us. 



Tain Mishmis, from two days journey beyond the Kund, had arrived, 

 and I considered my trouble as partly rewarded by the information deriv- 

 ed from them. Primson and Ghalum, the two Chiefs, who afterwards 

 accompanied me in my excursion up the river, communicated freely what 

 they knew, and the former enabled me to lay down the course of the river 

 as far as the Lama country. I also undertook an excursion to the village 

 of the latter. 



On setting out, we continued through the same heavy tree jungle as 

 we had passed through from the Karam, and skirting the base of the 

 low hill in a N. Ely. direction, we crossed the Lailt under the foot of a 

 higher range. A path can be traced, but is evidently little frequented. 



