s
between the streams being for the most part entirely composed of stones.
The lowest temperature of the B. pooter was 63 degrees. A severe but
short rapid occurs at Karam Mookh itself, the fall being very great, but
the body of water small. The water of this river is beautifully clear.
Its temperature at the Mookh 72 degrees. The jungle extends down to both
edges of the water, and the stream is not divided into branches. My
guide in the evening disgusted me by asking how many days I intended to
stop at the Koond before my return to Suddiya, when I had engaged him
expressly to go into the Mishmee hills, and not merely to Brama Koond, as
the above question implied. But such is the way in which our best
designs depending on native agency are often tampered with. Thermometer
at 8 P.M. 64 degrees. Species of Conaria grow abundantly on the banks!

_Oct_. _18th_.--We are still in the Karam river. Reached about noon the
Kamptee village, Palampan, or rather its Ghat. This Karam river is
tortuous, generally shallow, with a more or less stony bed; it is nothing
more in fact than a succession of rapids, between each of which the slope
is very gentle, so that one makes good progress. Temperature at 6 A.M.
66 degrees in the canoe; but in the hut in which I slept, it is as low as
60 degrees. The dews are very heavy, and the jungle, as before, comes
down to the edges of the water, but scarcely affords any marked feature.
_Kydia calycina_ is common, as is likewise a large Mimoseous tree.
There is apparently very little diminution in the volume of water, though
several minor streams were passed between this and the Mookh.
Liriodendron is becoming more frequent. The views of the mountains are
very varied; and that of the Koond defile or Chasm, very beautiful; water-
falls seem to be distinctly visible down one hill or mountain, in
particular. The finest view however is on the Lohit, opposite Dyaroo
Mookh, at which place the three huge, ever snowy peaks, characteristic of
the Mishmee portion of the mountains, are distinctly seen.

Left the Ghat for the village which is situate on the Dea-soon or
Simaree, which flows into the Tenga-panee, and which is said now to carry
off so much water from the Karam that this river ceases a short distance
above this place to become navigable for boats like mine. The path we
pursued ran in a S.E. or S.S.E. direction for about a mile; it is good,
and leads through a thick jungle: the village