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sulcum afhxium. Embryo in axi albuminis, radicul super. Coty- 

 ledones foliacese, alba?, amplae, curvat seminis sequentes : suturae 

 placental, oppositse. Ejusdem generis cum Menispermea : in sylvis 

 Singfoensibus cum Wallichia : vide Icones. 



Arrived at Kioukgyee at 5 p.m. Waited on and dined with the 

 Meewoon, who is a gentlemanly, spare, lively man with grey hair. 

 Dinner was good, and clean. Preserved dried jujubes from China, as 

 well as some preserved by himself were very good. Kioukgyee is 

 on the right bank of the river, which is here undivided by islands, 

 and about 1200 yards broad. Just above the town there are some 

 rocks. The number of houses is about eighty-five, most of them 

 arranged in a broad street running along the river, and the best 

 that I have seen for some time. 



The village is surrounded by a new and wretched stockade, the out- 

 skirts being fenced or pangaed ; the people are on the qui vive, and the 

 whole village seems to be in a constant state of alarm. All the jun- 

 gle immediately adjoining the town is cut down ; many of the houses 

 are unroofed, and all the gates are guarded. Visited this morning 

 the lines occupied by the attacking force ; these were not 300 yards 

 from the village, and occupied the skirts of the jungle : trees had been 

 felled and earth thrown up, but not in such a manner as to obstruct 

 in any way tolerably brave men. We saw none of the slain, we may 

 therefore doubt if there were any, but it was evident from platters, etc. 

 strewed about, that the flight of the robbers had been very precipitate. 

 We passed some little distance above this, a holy island, the number- 

 less small pagodas on which, had a very pretty effect. Close to these 

 there was a small village, Sheweygyoo, which had been just burnt 

 down by the Kioukgyee people, for giving assistance to the robbers ; 

 this as well as two other contiguous, villages before occupied a good 

 extent of the left bank, and numbered probably 150 houses. Most 

 of the inhabitants have retreated up the river. 



May 8th. — Reached Katha at 6 p.m. Throughout the day saw 

 little of interest. What we did see, gave evident tokens of dis- 

 turbances : villages deserted ; dogs starved, howling piteously ; canoes 

 without owners. At one village a few miles below Kioukgit, our 

 arrival caused much excitement, and a gun was fired off as a signal 

 of alarm on our approach. 



May 9th. — Katha is on the right bank of the Irrawaddi ; it is situ- 

 ated on an eminence, and commands a fine view of a fine reach of 

 the river ; the situation indeed is excellent. It contains nearly 200 



