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PDFThe remaining distance performed in
boats may be thus estimated down the
Mogoung river to the Irrawaddi,
45
From the confluence of the Mogoung
river down the Irrawaddi to Ava, 240
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663
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Allowing twelve days for the performance of this last portion, which however is too short a time, the entire distance may be performed in forty days.
CHAPTER VIII.
Notes made on descending the Irrawaddi from Ava to Rangoon.
28th May.—I left Ava and halted about two miles above Menboo.
29th May.—Continuing the journey, the country appears flat with occasionally low hills as about Kioukloloing, no large villages occur; the river is sub-divided by churs; no large grasses to be seen, and the vegetation is arid. Bombax is the chief tree: Mudar and Zizyphus occur: Guilandina, Crotolaria a large Acanthacea, and a Jasminioides shrub are the most common plants: Borassus is abundant: Fici occur about villages. The banks are generally sandy, not high.
Yandebo. This is a wretched village; barren plains bounded to the east by barren rather elevated hills; base jungly. Observed the tree under which the treaty was signed with the Burmese at the close of the late war. It is an ordinary mango, near a pagoda on a plain with two large fig trees. I counted to-day 28 boats sailing up between this and our halting place of yesterday, mostly large praows. The banks present few trees, are flat, barren, and from being occasionally overflowed, adapted to paddy.
Halted at Meengian, which is a middling sized village on the left bank, about a mile below Tarof myoo.
