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The fuite embarks.-on board the junks', .-the -voyage renewed*, circum-
Jtances of it. A curious pagoda. Defeription .af fepulchres. Vafi
rafts of timber. Embark in larger junks. Pafsfome curious mountains,
a. deferipfm of them. Extraordinary iljumwation.
Deceibei^ A t an early how.df the^mcmitng'the'baggage was put on board .the
wednef- -jbnkS) with a regularity, as well as dilpatch, that .cannot well he de-
‘ *y | | fertbed: There was a fufRcient depth of water injthis river -to bring
\-the junks cbfe to die .forfhatifhe coolies, o¥^hich .there were .a
great number, a&ing under the orders o f the -mandarin and his fer-
vants, ahd guarded by .foldiers, foon transferred Syfery article that be-
fionged to the emhaffy on board «the veflels to .which it was~ fpecifiGajlly
. f .
5 The junks, to which we -were now jemoyed, were o0 efs dimerifions
•than thofe we had left;; an conformity to the navigable Hate of the
river,which only admitted veflels offinall burthen.
About eleven o’clock the fuite were all on board, and the whole fleet
[ready for failing. We’ accordingly renewed our yoyage, and Began
it by palling .under .a wooden bridge of feven arches, or rather, i f ae^.
curaGy of expreffiq»' lhould be confidered as indiljpenfahl^-of^even
intervals. Thefe intervals are formed by ftrdng ftone pUlaars, bush
in the, water, and overlaid with planks, guarded by a “double raib
|gg ƒ * This ftrudtufe ftretches acnfefhh river, to form a tcommunica-
tion between thofe parts o f the fuburbs o f Naung-chin-oa; which hre
divided-by it. Forts garrifoned with .troops, and well fuppliedHwim
artflletyi guarded either end p f i t ; nor Was the fleet unnoticed by
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them; 'a s i d T ^ g ^ # 5 V i ’d i i^ y a ^ h o n o u r ^ l 'A e parade o f%
ohet and tffe'di'flh.|i'ge of.the other. Th e ctfy^itfelf is alfo well de- December.,'
fended’ b } f t g® which a r e ^ t e a ^ .'thirty; fcef in heigh^ ,t0Wdrds-the
river, with rafh^i¥s^4h|t * “take die whole circuit oPaths' -j^lace, and
fijilate' t'pwers which arCdfebe'ohlihed^tb "the gates, hut appear t© rife.
above the?iWils in other adyanta'gepp|lituations.■
1 At .a^fniall- diflance from the bridge 'the ffveri^idOs' into twof
branches; that take' almoflf oppoiife dif^dtions •- on that wfltfle ftream
bore us-, al|>iig, we. a^lS-ngeCf^uantity 'oPfmall timber in rafts.
• In the afternoon we1 pstfled a pagoda, fituated on a bank o f the river,
whicfeWa^'’if%spore lingular a^pSitnde thanilhy S ' f h f great? num-
her o f that kind ©f-edifice which we- had ’feeri in our travels throughthd |
country. It ,C0^flfted' o f R ji Relief , which' terminated in a flat rOof^
with 'trees g f owing -omit, Th^body^bthe -buildings from many^p^rts
of which alfo IhrubMppeared'to fprodt fogh, was covered' with a
vriutg plaifter, and-deeprated with red paint'in its, angles and inter-
Hices."
• Th e country ftill g a in e d barren and mountainous; nor was its
Tude and-drealy afpfea enlivened^by any appearance ^g^Hvariad. A
^ pM d^ a b ^ k o - feA h a i^ fe fl^ l^ g ,' was the only place we^paffed m
thefirortyoyagpofthis day.
The natural face of j l y country wais drill dreary; and its artificial Thurfdayiai
eircumftahces did not enliven it hy phen character.^’The mountains,
a&we paffed by then?;exhibited*a^h^t'fiunihgr«BFthold1 fdpulcW|;of' t.
wMchfome d^eription-has^been already given. ^Thefe‘,vas,;the foriherj
were'in fitua^ons^at^^ly accefltbl®, ^and^ari^d Stheir. appearpe^,
as may be fuppofed, s^eorhng4p^e*^l®h*iri'digni^ of1 the perfon ' *
^whdfe vemains they already contained^or were, hereafter,-" delved to ..
jndole. 1
l i When