BY W. KING, ESQ. 



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from the latter village, and getting as far as the stream we 

 had stopped short at in December. The valley leading up 

 to the pass was quite green and luxuriant with mode- 

 rately sized trees, the forest being so thick that we could 

 scarcely get a sight of the hills, or headlands, on either side. 

 There were numerous small teak trees (say 30 feet high) 

 scattered el] through this forest, especially alongside of the 

 stream, but all were badly grown and chiefly from stumps, 

 The Goomer Teak was very common, as also the Nulla- 

 mudday ; and there were occasional open glades with very 

 large trees in the midst and all round, while belts of bam- 

 boos were very common over the forest. 



In one of these glades we saw a curious object sitting 

 out in the open, beside the dead embers of a fire, which 

 turned out to be an unfortunate Chensulah, who was utterly 

 unable to walk on account of a fearfully enlarged abdomen, 

 probably the result of a diseased spleen. It appeared 

 that his tribe had left him there with a little food 

 and fire, until some providential means of transport should 

 be found. And so it happened ; for on our return in the 

 evening the man was gone, and, some miles further on^ 

 we found him sitting on the roadside, near the encamp- 

 ment of the tribe, having been brought on by one of the 

 wood-cutter's bandies. We also met another of these people, 

 a miserable half- starved specimen ofaman, lying down with 

 his hungry dog beside the watering place. This man certainly 

 seemed to be taking no thought of the morrow as to 

 what he should eat, until he saw us, when he began to 

 pat his stomach and make other signs for food. He 

 subsequently turned up in a mysterious manner at our 

 breakfasting place where he got something to eat, which I 

 suppose carried him on to his people. He had no apparent 

 means in the shape of hunting weapons for obtaining food. 



