. This latter place we
visited on our return from the mines, it is a stockaded village,
containing 16 houses, and about 120 souls. It is situated about 100
yards from a small stream, the Nam Teen: it is inhabited by Singphos: it
is about a mile from the divergence of the road to the mines, and bears
from this spot nearly due south. During the season of operations at the
mines it is a place of some consequence, as all the necessary supplies of
grain are procured from it. At the time of our visit, there was a good
sized bazaar along the Nam Teen, which was likewise a good deal crowded
by boats.

The neighbouring hills are inhabited here and there by Kukkeens, the most
troublesome perhaps of all mountainous tribes; but there are some other
villages about the lake, called the Endawgyee. We had an opportunity of
viewing from a distance the above lake on our return from the mines. From
an open spot on the eastern face of Kuwa Bhoom, it bore nearly due south,
and was estimated as being 15 miles distant. We could not distinguish
its outline, but we saw enough to satisfy us that it was a large body of
water. It is situated in an extensive plain near a range of hills, part
of which form portion of its banks. From the same spot we could see
Shewe Down Gyee, the large range from which the Namtunai takes its
course, bearing nearly due east, and at an estimated distance of 35
miles; the situation of the mines is therefore nearly due east from
Kamein.

V. FROM MOGOUNG TO AVA.

THE WHOLE OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO ABOVE PLACES WAS PERFORMED BY
WATER.

The time occupied in descending the Mogoung river was three days. This
river is exceedingly tortuous, generally a good deal subdivided, and its
channels are in many places shallow. The chief obstacle it presents to
navigation consists in rapids, which commence below Tapan, and continue
for some distance; these rapids are not severe, but are rendered
difficult by the presence of rocks, many of large size. These rapids
commence immediately the river in its course approaches some low ranges
of hills. Boats of considerable size however manage to reach Mogoung;
they ascend the severer rapids in channels made along the sides of the
river, by removing and piling up on either side the boulders which form
great part of the bed of the river in these places. The descent is
managed in the same way, the speed of the boat being retarded by the crew
exerting their united for