fly with
firelocks, in the use of which at 50 yards two of the men were expert
enough. They talk the Singpho language.

The vegetation of the plains, proceeding to the mines, is unchanged.
Noticed Apluda, a Phyllanthus, Cacalia, Poa, etc. That of the hills is
the same as that of the low ranges before traversed. The only new plants
were a Celtis? a Krameria (the Celtis is the Boolla of Upper Assam,)
Ventilago, Quercus or Castanea, Compositae, etc. In the damp places a
largish Loxotis, two or three Begoniae, ditto Urticeae occur. I noticed
among and around the pits a species of Bambusa, Celtis, Kydia calycina,
Clerodendrum infortunatum, Calamus, Areca, Dicksonia, Ficus, Pentaptera,
and Rottlera. Pladera has ceased to appear.

Last night a sort of alarm occurred, and in consequence, this evening,
the head cooly gave his orders to his men in the following terms: "Watch
to-night well." Nobody answering him, he continued, "Do you hear what I
say?" Then addressed himself to them in the most obscene terms, which
habit and uncivilized life seem to have adapted to common conversation
amongst these people without any breach of modesty or decorum; and
amongst the Assamese such expressions likewise form not an uncommon mode
of familiar salutation.

_March 27th_.--Left about 7, and proceeded over the Meinkhoon plain in
an easterly direction, in which the highest hills visible from the
village lay. We continued east for some time, our course subsequently
becoming more and more south. On reaching the Nempyokha, we proceeded up
its bed for about two miles, the course occasionally becoming west. We
reached Wollaboom at 12.5. General direction S.E.; distance thirteen
miles. The greater part of the country traversed consisted of low
plains, splendidly adapted for _halee_ cultivation. No villages were
passed. Saw two paths, one leading to the N., one to the S. not far from
Meinkhoon; of these the N. one leads to the hills, the S. to a Singpho
village. And we passed burial places of some antiquity, and considerable
extent. New plants; a Loranthus floribus viridibus, petalis 6 reflexis.
Zizyphoidea, and an arborescent Bignonia foliis cordatis oppositis,
integris, basi bi-glandulosis, paniculis racemiformibus, solitariis et
axillaribus vel terminalibus et aggregatis. Marlea Sporobolus, Castanea
edulis, Pteris dimediata, etc., occurred. Noticed the tracks of a Tiger,
of Elks, and the Peewit or Curlew.

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