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16 JUNE
new tributary character being green leafy trees,
with posilms, or tree ferns,
but many bamboos.
Below the defile the rain
riders on again only
around flat country with
villages at intervals,
2.5 30 p.m reached Kalka
the [illegible] R19 connect
small bameese village
with white pagoda +
many homes, bordering
the river: Over Jaling
we bear fruit, also
a few palms from which
the toddy or beer is made.
Saddles were lashed to the
palms along the loft part
of the stem for hold