Riding across the plain,' over,which I> bhd lately*sailed, I perceived:that'
part of it, was: already.'under tilfege\^but-fhe largest portion was left'for-
inundation; canoes navigated between thé höiisès;of
the lower Stiburteof the city, and a ll’communication was dfömjaïned-tHy*
water;"But carts.now plied in;d^sty femes, and the foundations dFfehe büild-
i n ^ were af least fifteen feet above the levël of the river. - Ourdahats^ere
at a creek called Sakyingua, where5 a nmïïbêr'of trading vessels MirèfS'BBo*
moored, some of them-of'considerable bdrthfen.- - The noise oMiê- bbaf-1
men on the bank, and the smoke from thb fires which they madfe^rêfidlfBd'
ihê situation by no means agreeable.
Various causes conspired to detain us at Sakyingua Creek, until the 2‘Hïi.-
In ïh è interval, I received a short letter from the p r in c ip a l 11 n V r lr n nM
to thé Governor-General of India,containing a-desire Of th ^ a ^ t ^ p r ö tO f ë 5
certain religious books written in the Shans’m t language';: like wise tha‘t*i-
Bramin, well versed in astronomy, might he sent frtwffBcritytl<toTi!££mWl
to' imtract l^ p w n professors, of whose
jesty was fully sensible. The letter, however, laid as much*stress on-tffc"
purity of the preceptor * cast, as on the extent of his know MJigöfi
prehended a curious addition to the request,'that a Bramin WQ^Si|sbqnldi
accompany the sage, with a. viewy I imagine, of%rtfpkgasf in^» arac^oMfe- •
réditary astronomers. I informed thé Wóongee, k t reply,’ th it '^a'(dlh%
o f learning, have an invincible dislike to leave their native country, even-
for a Hrinted period; but to emigrate with their families, I conceived, was
ah act, to which no temptation would induce them: I.added, that theprirt-;
ciples of the English government did not allow’ of force being used, to compel
a subject into exile, who had not by any crime forfeited thè protection
of the law. This, I dare say, was not very intelligible doctrine to the.
Idespotic • monaaMKofe^fei’,! and at all exouflsfanust havef been perfectly
knogiel.;'..
thj^Wl ^ ' ^ i k ^ m |rH).cpnli^e6ej^e(lr ill treat;
mcnt>jieiqitK£> nasties, w Ihelww a^renicM Cal Je'W'ilfoclngl the hi it iiniauce
thitih fdi(A:ciUflcd,l^™ ^ c n ^ li^K;Ranaif,*dLst®oustK|^TOdiing lys-'collcctibn
of^feuitSuiwitHi’evt at^£arL5pi(Kluc'um^ioMie,',G()UHtr,v?t'fiSL<l, t«KAmpIo\ a
pi^^int-b^^l^Jyi^l^tS^^lK-feherJis^lqi,, hmi?]^rag|»ihc cs’t ' ^ d ’i ^ sent
I for th<^^^;y>su intojXh ^ h lldsjji. 'hfi,e follow cis of the Prince of loiigliOi
happencd'-^q^gsulci, n thtstriu.8|roftl^felassvAmicV^ni)i(ii.i(pie Annr'i&Bn -
I mans fop Eltoii;jn/ySfciic^g^i(i^h Ax^cst.v’BiMthLj^^^ffi^laliv^l'iaiftii.dfliiiie
I day to meet a pan t>4ofijthescarufliansVwlS^ilB^j(^?fiitthi?mmi^jJmw baskLt|.
KanUttni loan . and' llnca^SrlYrigrto p u (gra^wedL a Ail,:; so liiyf&iedShimf'tluit
he botanized no more, till we?\vorL?o^^f^8licinr5iv1^^^aWljel<nc-heard
much qf;thej.feroe|J^©H thi sc people^ lidio&woic % u>\ ®^mStittst; report
made* their-numbers ten thousands, fcheytivcio alwaj s^jiiuPrijllingswith the
followers *of the-other puiues; parti&ilapfy tbp^tU^tlie Lftinc c ‘ of jEtumLl:
It Was'saidi that the King/had on ;r in e mis’?«Smn^wmIjljp^S w|/e^auf mint.-
rapaoraf sfeliply/reprimanded his> sonSjwhc hoifghowl cckiui'* uidA.tififiui4l
his.W'obri, 'or’nun^teT//fdi^np4lceejiing liivp^^rJKii'b‘i.ttei^9&^^^ffl -I
took.no notice of their conduct; it was not expedientaff m\ departure, to
make.,a public, complaint gtfislich a petty fmtrSgei’H
. The river, which three, months bef&t^ had- Ndisplaiyedi ab|dhiMgj®upted
expanse.of several nules, was now broken into, scpai ateeslreums, surround;
ing numerous islands,, which, had Just emerged? fretm ■ tjie' inurida&u.l*?-! he
principal branch of the »ver&eyen m its diminished stale, was,. ^rmle*wpd,ef
Doctor Buchanan and.lfcrossed in>a! sm A boat, to-anHsfetrid;where some
fishermen;and gardeners had begun torerqcthuts, in which they tp^deiiiatii