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expected in a favourable soil. There are wooden bridges across the 
river at Choomboo, Sese, and other places that we passed. We saw 
the Patchieu, as it comes round the mountains to the north-west, form¬ 
ing a junction with theTehintchieu, which runs on to receive the river 
Hatchieu, near Kepta. As we approached Nomnoo, the husband¬ 
men were busied in the fields; the reapers were cutting down the 
corn with sickles, which others collected in handfuls, and bound up 
with a wisp of straw: we saw also oxen yoked in a plough, which 
was guided by a boy at the plough tail. We came early to Nomnoo, 
and were lodged in a large apartment in a spacious house, the walls of 
which were black from the smoke of a fire, which in the winter they 
commonly burn upon a large flat stone, in the middle of the room ; the 
commodiousness of a chimney being here unknown. 
I visited an orchard in the neighbourhood, and found it well stored 
with walnut, apple, peach, pear, apricot, and barberry trees. 
Two Poes 6 had arrived on the preceding day at Pauga: they were 
sent by the commandant of the garrison of Tassisudon, to procure for 
us whatever we might want, as the chief of Nomnoo was absent from 
his station. The next morning they set off'early, to advise their master 
of our approach. 
From Nomnoo, on Saturday the 31st of May, we still travelled near 
the banks of the river, and left Jeemi Jumboo, a handsome village in 
the valley, on our left, as we advanced to Wangoka, distant from 
Nomnoo near ten miles. 
e Inferior officers in the service of government, employed occasionally both in a civil 
and military capacity. 
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