Six A.M.  Temperature 58.5.  Water boiled at 210 degrees Fahr. 8 P.M.  Temperature of the air 66.  Altitude 1064 feet.

March 23rd.—­Started at 6 A.M. and reached Lamoom about 8, where we breakfasted.  Reached Tsilone, the Dupha’s village, at noon.  General direction S.W.  Distance about ten miles.  Lamoom is a small unstockaded village on the Moneekha.  Tsilone is a moderate sized Singpho village on the right bank of the Nam Tunail.  The river is of considerable size, with scarcely any rapids:  stream slow.  The village is situated on a rather high bank.

The country continues the same, perhaps a little more open, at least Putars are of frequent occurrence, although they are all narrow.  Observed Cryptolepis, Celastrus leguminoideus Cuscuta Uncaria racemis pendulis.  Of birds the smaller Maina, common house Sparrow, blue Jay, and the larger grey Tern occur.  We halted on a sandbank about one mile and a half higher up to the south of Tsilone.  New plants, the Campanula of Chykwar, ditto Lysimachia, Dopatrium, Jasminum, Rhamnea, Pothos, Lasia, Riccia, etc.

March 24th.—­Thermometer 58 degrees.  Boiling point 210.  Altitude 1064 feet.  After a long and hot march of seven hours we reached Meinkhoon; general direction —­ distance 17 miles.  During the first two hours we marched along the bed and banks of the Nam Tenai, subsequently over grassy plains intersected by belts of jungle.  Country much more open than that we saw yesterday.  To the W. low ranges of hills, about one-third of a mile distant, occurred throughout the day.  We passed two or three small nullahs, in one of which I observed lumps of lignite.

The Nam Tenai continued a large river, extreme breadth varying from 250 to 350 yards.  We crossed at once, about half a mile from our encampment, deepest part of the ford four feet; its banks are either thickly wooded or covered with Kagara jungle.  The day’s march was very uninteresting.  I observed a few Mango trees, a Mucuna, Laurineae are common, as well as a Wendlandia in open grassy places.  Sagittariae sp. was the only novelty.  Noticed the Hoopoe bird, Upapa Capensis.

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March 25th.—­Meinkhoon is situated on a very small nullah, the Eedeekha.  The village which is large and well stockaded, is divided into two by this nullah.  The population of both cannot, including children, be less than 200.  They belong to the Meerep tribe.  The women wear the putsoe somewhat like those of Burma, which seems to me quite new in Singpho women; and is not the fashion with those in Assam.  To the S.W. there is a group of somewhat decayed Shan Pagodas, and a Poonghie house, around which are planted mango trees and a beautiful arboreous Bauhinia, B. rhododendriflora mihi, ovariis binis!  Around the village is an extensive plain, and to the S.E. one or two more Pagodas.  This Bauhinia has flowers 1.5 inches across, calyx spathaceus,