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anchored at Pobuku where we remained all day & night. The afternoon was [[strikethrough]] spent [[/strikethrough]] employed by the steamer loading many large sacks of white Boston beans, baskets of varnish leaves & bales of tobacco. The river valley here is flat for many miles the mountains being far distant.
[[circled left]] 20 [[/circled left]] A strong wind continued to blow up stream all day & night, [[strikethrough]] filling the dust[[/strikethrough]] obscuring the landscape with dust. The sky was overcast but no rain fell. Just before [[strikethrough]] stoppin [[strikethrough]] anchoring at Minbu for the night we touched at a station where hundreds of oil derricks stood in the landscape close to one another looking like a forest. Over 1000 wells

Transcription Notes:
I think he means Pakokku, which is down river from Mandalay and up river from Minbu.