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occur. Celsia on sandy spots, together with Campanula, but this 

 last is becoming rare. Adelia nereifolia continues. An arundo 

 occurs on the naked rocks ; Cassia fistula, Tectona Hamiltoniana 

 are also present. 



We are much impeded by south-west winds ; and owing to this 

 and the slowness of the stream, we were compelled to remain some 

 time at Thee-ha-dau. We there had excellent opportunities of 

 seeing the fish, which are so very tame as to come up to the sides of 

 the boat, and even to allow themselves to be handled. The fa- 

 queers of the place call them together ; but I think they are not much 

 disposed to come from mere calling, for they seem to require more 

 substantial proofs of being wanted, in the shape of food : they are 

 found in still water in a small bay, which is closed up still more 

 from the influence of the stream by a round island, constructed 

 superficially on a rocky base, and on which pagodas are built. They 

 resemble a good deal the Gooroa Mas of Assam, but have no large 

 teeth as this has. They are very greedy, of a blueish grey colour, 

 occasionally inclining to red ; the feelers are in some forked : they 

 have no scales. 



We continued our course when the wind lulled ; halted to dine 

 on a sandbank, and proceeded on afterwards, until we reached 

 Kabuct about 8£ p.m. On the sandbank where we dined I gathered 

 a Crotalaria, Campanula, Cleome, a Graminea, Polygonum, Cype- 

 racese, and a Dentelloidea. The villages seen were all small. 



May \%th. — Left Kabuct before 6. Halted to breakfast on a steep 

 bank, finding it impossible to proceed against the south-west winds, 

 which have now become prevalent. 



At this place, which is hilly, I gathered Gmelina villosa, an Anona- 

 cea, calyce 6 sepalis, cor. tripetala, pet. patentissimis, margine revolu- 

 tis, luteis. A Carissa, Grewia, Malpighiacea samaris, 3-alatis, alis 

 dorsalibus abbreviatis, a curious Graminea, a green Orchidea, ter- 

 restris, bulbosa, flore ante folia evoluta, a Diospyros, Polygala, Plec- 

 tranthus, Rungia, Pladera, etc. 



Halted at Movo, owing to the wind. This is a very pretty village ; 

 of no great size, and of no importance. A delightful tope formed 

 by Mango, Fig, and Garcinia, or Xanthochymus, the dense shade of 

 which is most agreeable ; Averrhoa, iEgle Marmelos is cultivated 

 here ; Borassus is common, trunks of which are often of very irregu- 

 lar diameter. Low grassy places occur running along the back of 

 the village, with abundance of a Combretum fruticosum ; and a 



