so distinctly seen from Suddiya due east.  About 11, we reached the Ghat, beyond which boats, except of the smallest description, cannot pass; and about 1, started for the Mishmee village Jing-sha, situated on the Karam.  Our course was along the bed of the river, and nearly due east.  Formerly boats were able to reach the Ghat of the village, but the water has become shallower, owing, they say, to a larger portion being carried off by the Dea-soon, which runs into the Tenga-panee.  We reached the village Ghat about four in the afternoon, but our people arrived very little before six o’clock.  The march was tedious and difficult, owing to the numerous stones which are strewed in the way:  and the necessity for crossing the river was so frequent, that all idea of shoes was quite out of the question.  To increase the difficulty, the stones in the bed of river are very slippery, and as we crossed rapids, it frequently required some care to prevent our falling.

We were met by the Gam, or chief, before any signs of the village there were visible.  The population is small; the people fair, but begrimed with dirt; the dress consists of a loose jacket without sleeves.  The primary article of clothing is indeed so scanty, that the less one says about it the better.  The women are decently clothed, and have generally enormous calves, certainly bigger than those of the men:  their favourite ornament seems to be a band of silver, broadest across their forehead, which encircles their head.  This village is close to the hills, and within a day’s journey of the Koond, at least for a Mishmee.  One Assamese slave is among the inhabitants, who was sold when a boy.  A few of the men have Singfo dhaos or swords, others miserable knives, and some the usual spear so general with the tribes on this frontier.  But in general the weapons of these people are most insignificant.  The view of the hills is not fine from this place; it is too close to see any of great height, and they soon disappear to the westward.  In the evening that of the Koond, which bears E.N.E. by N. is fine, particularly one mountain, which is known at once by its numerous cascades or appearances of water-falls, which, although they appear like streaks of white to the eye, are distinctly visible through a telescope.  The bed of the Karam is almost entirely stony, and the immediate banks are clothed with grass.  The jungle is of the usual thick description.  The Gam, whose name is Jingsha, is a respectable looking man, fair in his dealings, and willing to oblige.  They all have tobacco pipes.

Oct. 19th.—­Halted to enable the people to bring up the baggage, and we shall in all probability have to halt to-morrow.  I paid a visit to the Gam’s house, Jingshi; it is to the S.E. of the Ghat, and about a mile and a half distant from it.  The houses are all detached, and almost buried in jungle.  Jingsha’s house is a good one, very long, and well built; he