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on either side of the rivulet, which divides the town ; 

 I had invited the Sultan and all the authorities to visit 

 the ' Sainarang ', but as the former cannot, by usage, go 

 afloat, the invitation was accepted only on the part of the 

 Chiefs, by the Prime Minister Datoo Muluk Mandalya. 

 On the day appointed, however, he postponed the visit 

 until the following, and on that day sent a message, stating, 

 " that the Sultan had forbidden him." I had contracted 

 a friendship with the Datoo Danielle, and had visited him 

 at his house in the country ; he is about twenty -eight 

 years of age, of the east river party, and nearly allied 

 to the Sultan, a non-opium-consumer, and a very correct, 

 independent, powerful character, and one of the heads of 

 the independents. The Court party are, however, endea- 

 vouring to weaken his influence by cross marriages ; 

 namely, by his brother, with a sister of the Sultan, and 

 by the son of the Prime Minister with his sister. 



To understand this completely, it is necessary to ob- 

 serve that by their laws, the brother would, in the first 

 instance, by his marriage with the Sultan's sister, have to 

 cross the rivulet to his wife, she being of higher blood ; 

 and in the second, the sister would have to do likewise 

 to the son of the Prime Minister, also by blood, nearer to 

 the throne. These alliances being prejudicial to Datoo 

 Danielle's politics, were therefore suspended. Datoo 

 Danielle was not, however, to be blinded by the sub- 

 terfuge of the Prime Minister ; and, determined to act 

 independently, came to Mr. Wyndham's house in state, 

 and accompanied me with some of his friends to the 

 ' Sainarang. ' I foresaw that this would create a sensa- 

 tion, and we had been but a few minutes seated at a 



