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What was to be done to appease the stomach that could not digest 
ironstone, or slaty limestone ? I bought, after some trouble, for the 
poor people had no provision to spare, some rice for the escort who 
had also left all at Bouk, and permission to shoot a fowl, I shot the 
fattest hen I could see, and my syce having boiled it, finger and 
thumb did duty for carvers, and while discussing the “ Sighing well,” 
a probable exhalation of carbonic acid gas, in the neighbourhood, and 
the morrow’s route, I fell asleep. 
On waking the next morning I got all to set out for Bouk at once, 
and again with my companion of yesterday, the Bouk headman, 
started north along the valley. After following the same road for 
some six miles, we struck off against the ridge on our left as it were, 
but managed somehow to come into a glen and then up and down, 
through a pass across the apparently single but now clearly com¬ 
pound ridge of mountains, and finally descending on the western 
side, came into the road of yesterday again, and after getting a view 
of Mandaley in the distance, reached the plain and galloped into 
Bouk. 
Here some blind people who had heard of my relieving some 
people at the capital came to get sight. They were incurable, but 
showed me that my healing fame was spreading. 
Returning the same afternoon we went first south-west for a 
little, then westerly to gain the north-west corner of the great Nan- 
dangan reservoir. In the plain about four miles from the mountain 
foot spurs, we came upon a hill of mainly the same crystalline lime¬ 
stone with the same dip and strike that I had seen near Seebeing, but 
with also abundance of quartz and felspar. (?) 
A quiet ride along the flat plain, through a few villages, and about 
7 p. m., the tired elephant landed me at my door. 
These hills evidently consist of transition rocks of Primitive Lime¬ 
stone, gneiss, silicious schist, slaty and crystalline limestone,—mica 
is more or less abundant everywhere. The small hills that I have 
had an opportunity of examining between the Irrawaddi and the 
Shan mountains, and south of the Sagain limestone, are gneiss f 
granite as at Ivangee of a red and grey mottle, with no tendency to 
stratification, crystalline and slaty limestone, and silicious schist, and 
pure quartz as at Kyatping about thirty miles to the north-east of 
this. 
