58£ ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



began to drink hnmediately, and 

 it was some time before we found 

 out our mistake, so much was our 

 taste injured. On the 17th at 

 sunset we thought we saw very 

 high land right ahead, but having 

 been often disappointed by mis- 

 taking clouds for high land, we 

 paid but little attention to it. 

 During the night the heavy swell 

 from the N.W. went down, when 

 a cross sea took its place, and a 

 fine breeze sprung up from the 

 eastward. 



On Friday at day-light the water 

 was much discoloured, a general 

 sign of being near land, but still 

 none could be seen. One of the 

 men was now so senseless, and so 

 weak, that he could not sit upright. 

 As the sun arose, and cleared away 

 the clouds, we had the heartfelt 

 satisfaction of seeing high land. 

 What a joyful sight was this to 

 poor creatures ne«rly sinki ng under 

 fatigue and want of food. As we 

 neared the land, we saw a number 

 of huts and the natives walking 

 on shore. About noon we ran 

 the boat on the beach, hut were in 

 a condition too weak to walk. 

 The natives assisted us, and as 

 soon as they knew our situation, 

 fetched us hat congy (the water in 

 which rice is boiled) and gave it 

 us to drink, of which we took a 

 great quantity. Each man was 

 led between two people to the hut 

 appointed to us, and we were fur- 

 nished with every thing we wished 

 for, except cold water. We had 

 no desire to eat, but craved cold 

 water, which the nr>tives would 

 not give us, but supplied us plen- 

 tifully witli hot congy. Just as 

 we were sitting down on the 

 straw, Ave were informed that one 

 of our people was dead. It was 



the poor man who had been so bad 

 in the morning. 



The name of the place at which 

 we arrived, is Poondy. It is si- 

 tuated about sixty miles to the 

 southward of Ganjam, and thirty 

 to the northward of C.ilingapatam . 

 On the 25th Captain Harman went 

 to Calingapatam to procure a 

 supply of money and clothes from 

 the Eeach master at that place. 

 He returned on the 28th, and on 

 the 29th, after furnishing the men 

 with money enough to carry them 

 to Bengal, the Captain and myself 

 started in Doolis carried by four 

 men. We followed the coast and 

 travelled almost without inter- 

 mission night and day. On the 

 15th of December we reached 

 Tombuke, when we took a boat 

 for Calcutta, and on going up the 

 river, to our very great astonish- 

 ment saw our brig at anchor wait- 

 ing for the flood tide to carry her 

 up. We went alongside, and every 

 soul on board was thimderstruck 

 to see us, having given us up as 

 dead. They waited four days at 

 Diamond Island, expecting our 

 return. In running across the 

 bay they had bad weather, and on 

 seeing any drifts went down to 

 them, expecting they might be the 

 boat. We weighed on the flood 

 and arrived at Kuddupore on the 

 16th of December, and on the 

 23d our poor fellow sufferers ar- 

 rived, looking very well after so 

 long a march. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL CE- 

 EEMONIES OF A BURMAN PRIEST. 



Communicated by W. Carey, D. D. 

 (From the same.) 

 The manner in which different 

 nations dispose of their dead, is 



one 



