what was made in England. Unluckily, none of us happened to be skilled!
in the mystery ofva glass-house.^ s(ll;L&erefore, that we could> do, was to
explain-the principles tig w ^ ^ W ^ ^ h a n a n obligingly
took; and in ordeAto-feeilitat^theiacquirement^Bnd^ guide them in the
pra c tic e,! lent-them1 the.Encyclopedia Brkarinica,' andvpojnted out the
article w h e ^A fe ^ ^ 'e s^ # ? fc d ly explained. Baba-Sheen, and the Armenian
interpreW'translated: it. vinto .th'e Birman .< tongue ^ but; 1 much fear .,
that the theory alone, conveyed in terms.of^science^ will not, without prac?l
tical Experience,' advance them very.fardn amartwhjch his-Birman Majesty
is so laudably solicitous to bringTo peiTectjon.among-his subjects.
I t was-a matter too.remarkable to pass unnoticed, that..'of the., numbers
who did me,the honour of-a visits there was not onmthat had.ainyrshare in
the administration of public affairs, the Woondock that met me. at Pegahm
excepted, who, though-of distinguished rank, .is but an inferior minister:
ffonefoffithe Woongees of Attawoons condescended to pay me the. com-
pliment. The Maywoon 'of Pegue sometimes honoured, ine with. his
company: his official consequence, however, .was . here diminished; into
insignificance, notwithstanding he was of the1 highest’ order; exceptioiie*
of-nobility, wearing‘a tzaloe; of nine strings. "
i When a.public minister is; delegated from’a foreign' power, to the Birman:
court,': it -is the established custom far theiMayvyoon, or governor, of
the fronliCn province which the minister first enters:, to proyide .for his.
safe conveyance to the capital, and to. attend to his convenience so long
as he continues to reside in the country; a service which he is frequently
;obliged to perform in person, as in the.present case of . the English deputation.
' The governor of Bamoo,. the province bordering on Yunan,.. performed
the office to our Chinese neighbours with the utmost kindness and