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millet. One thousand copper pice pass for 2^ ticals ; and these pice 

 are used in sales and purchase 5 '. Ric^- is cultivated and used in the 

 provinces of Yunan, Kue-rhow, Hun&n and Hu-kueng (Hugumg). But 

 there are no paddy lands ; and pyaung, pulse, barley, and nillet only 

 are cultivated and used in the provinces of Honan and Tsltll, and 

 about the cities of Zhehol and Taing. As far as Kile-chow the people 

 of the country wear their hair like the Burmese, all over the head. The 

 people to the north are very numerous, and there are a great many hills, 

 precipices and streams. In Hu-kueng people travel in boats, as there are 

 many lakes and streams in that province; and in Hon an and Tsltli the 

 ground being natural and even, carriages are used. There are no trees, 

 bamboos or ratans, and instead of fire- wood coal is used. 



" We heard in China, that in the month of May or June in the year 1 149 

 (A. D. 1787) the people of Taik-wun having revolted and put to death the 

 governor and officers, the force first sent to subdue them under the gene- 

 ral TsHAiT-TA-viN was defeated with great loss. That general was 

 executed by the emperor, and another general Thu'-thIta-yin detached 

 against the rebels, whom he subdued in the month of April 1789, when 

 Mi-Kou'N-YE's younger brother, Khue-Koun-ye', was appointed go- 

 vernor over the people with the office ofTse-taik. The two leaders of 

 the TrJk-wun rebels were decppitated, and their heads, together with the 

 head of the general Tshai't ta'-yi'n, were suspended in the market place 

 of the great southern city. 



" On the 23rd of August, 1788, about 9 o'clock at night, the Thi-tshuen 

 river rose and the water overflowed and drowned the whole city of Kyln- 

 chow in the province of Hukueng. Upwards of ten thousand people were 

 destroyed, together with the wife and children of the governor, and the 

 second governor himself with all his family. On the receipt of this intelli- 

 gence at Pckin, the VVun-gyih A-tsou'n-teng was dispatched with upwards 

 of two thousand viss of silver, to provide clothing, food and habitations for 

 such of the inhabitants of Kyln.chow as remained, which service he per- 

 formed. Intelligence was also received from the people appointed to 

 guard, that an embryo Bud'dh had appeared at the city of Thl-tsdn in the 

 Kula country to the westward of Thi-tshuen, and that the people were 

 disputing and going to war about him. The general Aung-tsong-kyin 

 was appointed to go and attack them with the force in the city of Thi- 

 tshuen. 



" We saw all the houses and lands destroyed by the floods along the whole 

 road we travelled in the provinces of Hundn and Hope, from the city of 

 Kyeng.chow included. The people also said, that when the walls of the 

 city of Thi-tshuen fell down and were being rebuilt, a prophetical writing 

 was found, which the nobleman, Khou't-mye'n, who first built the walls, 

 had placed there. The contents of this writing were : — ' To the south 

 one thousand Taings will be destroyed by water. To the northward, 

 beyond the city of Shydn Shi, a stream of blood will flow. A great calamity 

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