MINBU IN UPPER BURMA. 
Chomo and just north of .the 20° 30' line of latitude. We arrived at 
Myaung-u on the morning of the 19th March and we halted there for 
that day and the following. Here for the time being we had to for- 
sake our carts, as we had now arrived at the outermost ridges of the 
Arracan Yomahsinto which at this point no cart road penetrated at the 
time of our visit, although one was being made. Accordingly we 
arranged with the headman of Myaung-u for coolies to carry our 
baggage, and on the morning of the 20th March we started to march 
the fourteen miles along and across the Nwamadaung hills to Sidok- 
taya (Sedoktea) in the Mon valley, which we reached at nightfall. 
The following day was spent at Sidoktaya, collecting and changing 
paper. On the 22nd March we marched from Sidoktaya to the Chin 
village of Kan, situated at about 3,000 feet elevation on the Eastern 
flank of the Arracan Yomahs, 
We halted at Kan village for the 23rd and 24th March, collecting 
in the neighbourhood and marched down again to Sidoktaya on the 
25th, halting there for that day. The following day we stowed our- 
selves and servants and luggage into two lumbering dug-outs, and 
proceeded down the Mon river, reaching Monmyin at nightfall. 
Another day’s perfunctory tugging at the makeshift oar on the part 
of our boatmen landed us at Okpho, where we forsook the river and 
travelled by night in bullock carts to Legain. There we had an 
hour or two’s rest and then pushed on to Sagu, where we obtained a 
fresh relay of carts, which brought us into Minbu that same evening 
the 28th of March. The writer then remained at Minbu for three 
days, assorting the collections and packing them up. On this being 
finished he left Minbu on 1st April, arrived at Rangoon on 3rd April, 
left the latter place on 6th April and arrived in Calcutta on the 9th 
April. The whole excursion occupied just six weeks, of which more 
than a fortnight was spent in travelling from Calcutta to Minbu and 
returning from Minbu to Calcutta. The itinerary succinctly shown is 
as follows 
27th February 1903 
Left Calcutta. 
28th „ 
1 st March 
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2nd to 4th 
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at Rangoon. 
5th to 7th 
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Rangoon to Minbu. 
7th to loth 
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at Minbu. 
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Minbu to Sinbok. 
1 2th ho 13th 
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at Sinbok. 
14th to 15th 
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at Pyogingon. 
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at Salin. 
17th to 1 8th 
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at Gwingyin. 
19th 
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at Myaung-u. 
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