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Macrae and Mr. Harder to Mar Rova with all our baggage, and orders for 12 narts to return for the rest of us, as the Myan had already begun to break up. The next day, Saturday was a great holy day among the people and when they came to know whether they must work or not, I told them they need not, and we would stay another day longer, but they preferred working that day, and piled up the greater part of the poles ready cut, 1500, so that the flood would not carry them off.

Sunday 12 narts arrived and as our provision was consumed, and the waters of the Myan rising very rapidly, we were compelled to leave, though there are 300 of the poles not yet piled together. I think however, they will not be swept away.

Our prospects were so favorable, before you left, and our expectations so great that what we have accomplished, comparatively