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We had to wait again for more than five months, whilst the Tsountu sent 

 a report of our arrival to PeJcin. On the 25th June, 1788, the governor of 

 Maing:T$an received a letter from the Tsountu, ordering him to let the 

 Burmese ambassadors advance ; and on the following day, attended by 

 the governor K,hua'-ta'-l6:ye' and interpreter Wu'n-tsou'n-ye' with one 

 hundred men, we left Maing:Tsdn, and on the 1st July reached the city 

 of Tathi (Tali ?), where the Tsountu came from Maing:Tshi (Yunan), 

 on the 12th July, to meet the royal letter and presents. On the 21st 

 July, orders from the emperor of China reached the Tsountu, who informed 

 us, that he had received the imperial orders to allow the ambassadors to 

 proceed, and that the emperor had also ordered, that the envoys who had 

 come from the great western country, from the royal friend and lord of 

 the golden p;ilace, should be conveyed to Pekin in fifty-one days ; and that 

 the Tsountus, governors, Titus and officers, along the whole route, should 

 treat the ambassadors with every respect, and at the regular stages sup- 

 ply them with provisions, and entertain them with music, plays, &c. The 

 Tsountu further said, that similar orders had been sent to all the other 

 officers along the route, and that he would prepare some presents for his 

 Majesty the king of Ava, which he desired we should forward by some 

 proper persons with a report of our proceedings. We accordingly sent 

 Danutazaung.-ye' and Tset-yan-nhaing to Amarapura with the Tsoun- 

 tu s presents, and left Tathi on the 23rd July with thirty-seven men, 

 attended by Tauktait HoxA-LOrYE', Khua'-ta-lo:ye', and the inter- 

 preter Wun-tsou'n-ye'. In seven days' journey we reached the city of 

 Maing:Tah\ (Yunan), where we stopped one day, and then continuing 

 our route, reached the city of Kiietsd (Kue-chow) in nine days' journey, 

 on the 8th August, 1788. On the 12th we came to the city of Tsin-yuen- 

 fu dependent on Kue-chow, where, on the following day, we embarked in 

 boats and dropped down the stream until the 20th, when we disembarked 

 at the landing place at Rlyen or Yl-yen, and continued our route by land. 

 On the 22nd August, we came to the city of Tsheng-shya-fu in the district 

 of Hunan, and in eight days' journey more to the city of Wu-tsheng-fu in 

 the district of Hupe. On the 12th September, in thirteen days' journey, 

 we came to the city of Tshl-chow, beyond the district of Hondn and in 

 that of Tath (Peteheli). In seven more days, on the 19th September, 

 we reached Pauh-tln-fu, the principal city of Tsitli, and on the 23rd 

 reached the city of Lukd Khyauk-ken* , six miles distant from the capital^ 

 Pekin. The emperor not being there but at Ye:h6f in Tartary, seven 

 days' journey to the north-east of Pekin, we left the city of Luko Khyauk~ 

 ken on the 1 1th, and in three days came to the boundary of Tartary to 

 the Hu-pe-khe fort J line of wall. In two days more we came to the 

 city of Lanphyin-hien, where the chief of the chokey met us, and taking a 



* Ken is a chokey in Burmese. 



t Du Halde's Gehol, and Sir G. Staunton's Zhe-hol. 



X Du Halde's Coupe keon Fort ? 



