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The next morning, when we passed the Kund on the side of the hill 

 above it, we were entering on novel ground. The JBor Gohahis party 

 had returned previously. I had sufficient curiosity to wish to accompany 

 them, but was unwilling to tire myself and party by an unnecessary 

 expedition. 



Such was the nature of our slippery and rugged path, that, although 

 we passed the holy pool about nine o'clock, it was twelve when we arrived 

 at the mouth of the Mtee rivulet, one thousand yards beyond it : the next 

 reach was in the direction N. 22 E., but after a debate on our ability 

 to proceed by the dangerous path of the river side, it was resolved that 

 we should avoid it, and cross the hills instead ; a little Mishmi boy led the 

 way clambering up the face of a perpendicular rock, assisted by a hanging 

 cane, made fast for the convenience of passengers to some tree above : 

 all that I could surmise of our direction was, that we were travelling 

 towards the east, but whether north-east or south-east it was impossi- 

 ble to say, and owing to the sharpness of the ascent, the distance got 

 over was equally uncertain : in the evening, the Tliathutheya moun- 

 tain defined the limit of our movement towards the east by the 

 help of a bearing on it, but instead of having a ridge-like form, it 

 was now a high sugar-loafed peak, and the name only enabled me to 

 recognise it. We had crossed one ridge, and to our north, at the base of the 

 hill, could hear the Brahmaputra rolling along. The view was limited 

 to the extremities of two sharp bends of the river, the hills, clothed in black 

 forest, rose above us on each side, and Tliathutheya above overlooked 

 them.* Although we had advanced but a few miles beyond the Kund, 

 yet it was nearly dark before we halted, not a bit of level ground, large 



* N. B. There is something appropriate in the term chasm or pass, by which Colonel 

 Wilford distinguishes the Prabhu Kuthdr. 



