'The sources of the Irrawaddy are giving almost as' much trouble as those of the Nile. Some months ago Lieutenant Pottinger, R. A., and Mr. Lawrence set out with a small escort on a private ex-jon, backed by the Royal Geographical jetty, intending to explore and map certain little-known parts North of Sima, between' Burma and China proper, and also to survey both branches of the Irrawaddy to their respective sources. After mapping a considerable portion of the country, the party was attacked on the 22nd of May by s certain tribe of Marus, who have been called the Black-Marus (though the blackness {5 the result of their abnormal dirtiness) and who constitute one of the many tribes to whom the generic name of Kachins is given. "A surveyor arid a Goorkha were killed and-two ition wound: ed. The incident arose out of some quarrel between one of the has and a few of the tribesmen in which, I tinderstand, the Goorkha fired at 6 Maru without sufficient cause. As a result, the patty. was. siiddenly attacked at night, anid bad to fly, Garsying their two. wounded men with them, but abandoning all their" ortunataly been forwarded to Parma be:
papers and maps had, "however,
fore: the attack. For six days they were in the jungle, subsisting on very scant fare, "until they reached Chinese territory. ing: his "report, which will probably: me Lieut, -Pottinger la now in Rangoon writ clude-some disagreeable remarks on the manners and customs of the Black Marus.
Lith Jaly. vee
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