is eaten, Phlebochiton extensus, Sedgwickia
cerasifolia, Callicarpa arborea, Porana, Randia, sugarcane, citrons,
tobacco.

The fauna contains two or three squirrels, one of which is the small one
of Upper Assam, Trocheloideus, the lesser Edolius or Drongo minor.
Mainas, two kinds, carrion crows, Bucco, Muscipeta flammea, and one or
two other species, Parus, two or three species, kites, large
tailor-birds, sparrows. The black-bird of the torrents, and the usual
water-birds, black pheasants; bulbuls very common, Bucco barbatus,
parroquets, barking deer.

The temperature being 58 degrees 61', water boiled at 208 degrees. The
mean of two observations accordingly gives the altitude as 2,165 feet
above the sea.

The number of houses is about 130, but these form two or three detached
villages. The population is considerable, and there is no want of
children. The people are stout and very fair, with ruddy cheeks, but
abominably dirty. Some of the men are six feet in stature. We had one
opportunity of witnessing their practice with the bow, but only two or
three of the dozen candidates were decent shots. The mark was a very
small one, and the distance 120 steps, but none hit it during the time we
looked on, nor even the circular patch of branches, on which the slab of
wood of this form was placed. The practice was accompanied with the
usual proportion of noise and gesticulations.

There is very little cultivation on the hills around, so that this people
are, at least about here, evidently dependent on the plains for their
supplies. The cattle are a good breed, and totally different from those
of the plains. Ponies and mules are by no means uncommon; there are
likewise pigs and fowls, both of which are abundant, and of fine
description.

_January 16th_.--Every thing leads me to conclude that the Booteas are
the dirtiest race in existence, and if accounts be true, they are equally
deficient in delicacy. Although much beyond other mountain tribes
inhabiting either side of the Assam valley, in the structure of their
houses, in their clothing, in their language, and probably in their
religion, they are inferior to them in other points. Thus their looms
are perhaps really primitive, and of the most simple construction;
neither in their weapons of defence are they at all superior.

On the 14th I ascended a peak to the eastward, and certainly 1,000 feet
above the village: on the summit of this, where there were the r