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[[right justified]] 16 JUNE [[/right justified]]
no striking character being green leafy trees, with palms or tree ferns but many bamboos. Below the defile the river widens out again into broad flat country with villages at intervals. At 5:30 we reached Katha the [[strikethrough]] terminus [[/strikethrough]] RR connecting a small Burmese village with a white pagoda & many houses bordering the river. Coco palms were here in fruit. Also a fair palm from which the toddy or beer is made Ladders were lashed to these palms allow the tapping of the stem [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] or head for toddy