CHAPTER XIII. 
JOURNEY FROM THE RIVER MAKKWARIN TO THE TOWN OF LITAKUN. 
July \Oth. We departed from the Makkwarin at noon, bending our 
course to the south-east. We still continued travelling over the 
Great Plains of Litakun, where nothing but the distant horizon 
bounded our prospect, excepting behind us, where the blue summits 
of the Kamhanni mountains near the Kruman, rose to break the 
evenness of the line. The soil, as hitherto, was in most parts sandy 
and of a very red color, abounding in tall grass and, in the latter 
half of the day's-journey, ornamented with many beautiful thick 
clumps of mohaaka trees (tarchonanthus) of ten or twelve feet in 
height, which from their more diffuse ramification, appeared to be 
a new species. * In the course of the afternoon, we passed through 
many extensive areas of those kinds of grass which have been men- 
tioned as giving to the plains the appearance of fields of wheat, -f 
* Catalogus Geogi-aphicus, n. 2202. 
f The above vignette will give an idea of the scenery here described. It will, together 
with the others of this and the former volume, present at the same time a specimen of the 
perfection to which the art of engraving on wood may be carried ; and will not lessen the 
reputation which Mi . Branston^s talents in this art had already gained. 
