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wlio accompanied me, and produced a request to exhibit 

 tlie compass wheu 1 returned. I was then siuTounded by 

 a larger crowd tlian bt-fore, and wlieu J took my evening 

 meal in the midst of a circle of about a huTidred spectators 

 anxioudly observing every movement and criticising ever)' 

 mouthful, my thoughts involuntarily recun-ed to the lions 

 at feediug time. Like those noble animals, I too was used 

 to it, and it did not affect my appetite. The cluldreu iiere 

 were more shy tlian at Tab45kan, and I could not pei-suade 

 them t-o phiy. I therefore turned showman myself, ami 

 I'xhibited the shadow of a dog's head eating, which pleased 

 t hem so much that all the village in succession came out 

 to see it. The *' rabbit on the wall " does not do in 

 lionieo, as there is no animal it resembles. The boys had 

 top-^ shaped something like whipping-tops, hut spun with 

 a string. 



The next morning we proceeded as before, but the river 

 had become so rapid antl shallow and the boats were all 

 so small, that though 1 had nothing with me hut a change 

 of clothes, a gun, and a few cooking utensils, two w^ere 

 required to take me on. The rock wliich appeared here 

 and there on the river-bank v:m an indurated clay-slate, 

 sometimes crystalline, and thrown up almost vertically. 

 Uight jind left of us rose isolated limestone mountains, 

 their white precipices glistening in the sun and contrasting 

 beiiutifully with the luxuriant vegetation that elsevvheni 

 clothed them. The river bed was a mass of pebbles, 

 mostly pure wlnte quartz, but with abimdance of jasper 

 and agate, presentiifg a beautifully vai'icgated appearance. 

 It was only ten in the morning when we arrived at Budw, 

 and, thougli there were plenty of people about, I could 

 not> induce them to allow me to go on to tlie next Tillage. 

 The Oi'ang Kaya said that if I insisted on having men, of 

 cimrse he would get them, but when I took him at his 

 wonl and said I must have them, there came a fresh re- 

 moListrance ; and the idea of my going on that day seemed 

 so i)ainfLd that I was obliged to submit. I therefore 

 walked out over the rice-fields, which are here very ex- 

 tensive, covering a number of the little hills and valleys 

 into which the whole country seems broken up, and ob- 

 taijied a fine view of hills and mountains in every direction. 



