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" bait, does not perceive the fpringe laid for it : or 

 " like a ftag, who running after the female, obferves 

 " not the arms nor the fnares of the hunger. This 

 " perfon not attending to future danger, but folicued 

 " by the five carnal delights, will either pais to the 

 " infernal regions, or will tranfmigrate into an animal. 

 •' By fuch iimilitudes did Godama teach. 



" Revolving thefe things in your mind:^, O ye 

 " EngliJJi^ Dutch, Armenians, and others, adore Go- 

 " DAMA the true god; adore alfo his law, and his 

 " priefts; be folicitous in giving alms, in the obfer- 

 " vance of Sila, and in performing Bavana. But a 

 " true and ligitimate priell of Godama is not to be 

 " found except in this empire*, or in the ifland of 

 " Ceylon : and you, O bifiiop, have obtained a great lot, 

 " who have been thought worthy, although born in 

 " one of the final 1 iflands depending on Zabudiba, to 

 " come hither, and to hear the truth of the divine 

 " law. This book, which I now give you, is more 

 " ellimable than gold and filver, than diamonds and 

 *' precious ftones : and I exhort all Englija, Dutch, 

 *' Armenians, and others, faithfully to tranfcribe its 

 " contents, and diligently to a6l according to the pre- 

 " cepts therein contained. 



" The title affumed by the wrjter of the above 

 " treatife w^as I Atuli Zarado, great-mafter of the 

 " king of the nine provinces of the Shan, of the 

 " province of CuJJay, of the three provinces of Giun, 

 " Yun and Han, of the three provinces of Pegu, and 

 " of the feven provinces of Burmas: prince of the 

 " golden umbrella, of the palace of the fun and moon; 

 " and alfo fupreme lord of the white elephant, of the 

 " red elephant, of the black elephant, Sec. &c. &c." 



OF THE PRIESTHOOD. 



These titles of the chief prieft of the country lead 

 me to defcribe that order of men, fo intimately con- 

 nefted with religion and learning. 



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* Siam was then fybjecl to the Burmas, 



