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THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 66.— June, 1837. 



I. — Some account of the Wars between Burmah and China, together 

 with the journals and routes of three different Embassies sent to Pekin 

 by the King of Ava ; taken from Burmese documents. By Lieutenant' 

 Colonel H. Burney, Resident in Ava. 



[Continued from page 149.] 

 In the 30th No. of the Gleanings of Science I have given some 

 account of the Chinese caravans, which come principally from Theng- 

 ye-show and Tdli-fii in Yunan, not only to Ava hut to all the Shan 

 towns suhject to Ava, Maing : Leng-gyih, Kyaing.-totin, Theinni, M6:n£, 

 Thibo, &c, as well as to Zenmay and the Shan towns subject to 

 Siam. A party of Chinese also annually proceed from Santd-fu to 

 Mo.gaung and Payen-dueng for the purpose of procuring amber and 

 the noble serpentine, or the stone so much prized by the Chinese and 

 called by them Yu. 



The emperor of China appears never to have surrendered the TsJ:- 

 buds of Theinni, Bamo and Mo:gaung agreeably to the terms of the 

 treaty of Bamo ; nor can I find a notice of any correspondence be- 

 tween the sovereigns of the two countries until the reign of the pre- 

 sent king of Ava's grandfather, Men:dara':gyih, Symes's Minde- 

 ragee. That monarch, shortly after he put his nephew to death and 

 seized the throne in the year 1781, appears to have deputed a small 

 party for the purpose of opening a communication with China, but the 

 envoys were seized by the Chinese and sent up to the north of Pekin, 

 to the Tartar province of Quantong. In 1787, however, an embassy 

 came to Ava from China, and I will now give a free translation of the 

 journals and routes of three different embassies, which were sent to 

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