350 Memoir of Giuseppe d'Amato. [Aug. 



Moun-lha, , 25 houses. 



Khyoung-Yo, 15 



Khyan-ta-roowa, 100 



Khyoung-oo, 15 



Nga-bek, 20 



Total 175 houses, 

 which are said to contain a population of about 960 souls. Most 

 of them at one time professed the Catholic religion, but of 

 late years many have apostatised, as D'Amato complained to me. 



Besides the above-mentioned villages, there is a small one containing 

 about 40 or 50 souls, called Mengalagoure, situate close to the western 

 walls of this city, near the British residency. To this village, in 

 the centre of which are a Chapel and Parsonage, built of bambus and 

 leaves, Don Jose paid an annual visit about Christmas, and it was 

 here that I first saw him in December, 1830. 



He was then about 73 years of age, and I was particularly struck 

 at observing how lively all his recollections of his native land still 

 were. He described Naples and a celebrated piece of sculpture there, 

 with a degree of gesture and youthful animation that quite surprised 

 me. " Dear Italy," was always a favorite theme with him ; when 



he first heard Mrs. play on the piano forte, he burst into tears, 



and he wept like a child for half an hour, begging all the time that 

 the music should not cease. 



He shunned the court, and never went near any of the great men 

 here, if he could avoid it. He lived always among his flock like one 

 of themselves, and was venerated by them in no common degree. His 

 dress consisted of a pair of trowsers with a black cotton gown, and 

 Burmese sandals on his feet. He said he found stockings very 

 uncomfortable, and could not wear them even during the cold season. 

 His amusements consisted in drawing and painting, gardening, and 

 when he was in the country, in driving about in a Burmese cart drawn 

 by oxen. He said, that he had never been sick for even a day until the 

 year I first saw him, when his constitution was evidently breaking. 

 But even then, he walked about a good deal, and made no use of 

 spectacles. 



The district of Dibayen, in which he lived; was at one time much 

 infested with banditti, and Bundoolah has the credit of having put 

 them down, and settled that part of the country just before the late 

 war. D'Amato's knowledge of medicine enabled him to do a great 

 deal of good among the population in his district j and although the 



