438 Some account of the Wars between Burmah and China. [June, 



ruby rings ; 2 sapphire rings ; 60 viss weight of noble serpentine ; 2 elephants' 

 teeth weighing 42 viss and 82 ticals ; 46 uncut rubies, 1 viss weight of Mobye 

 stone ; 15 peacocks' tail, with 3 male elephants and 2 female. Let these envoys 

 return without delay." 



The king- of Ava's letter, besides not acknowledging the fraternity 

 claimed by the emperor of China, and styling him simply " royal 

 friend," has not the respectful particle " bd" which is given in the 

 translation of the first part of the emperor's letter. 



"Information obtained from ThI-ha-tsS-thu' N6ra-tha' and Ya'za 

 Nora-tha'-gyo-gaung, who accompanied the Tsa-re-gyih Ne-myo-men:, 

 tha, when he was deputed as envoy to the Chinese city in the kingdom 

 of Gan-ddJa~yit, on examining them regarding the affairs and customs of 

 China, and the distances of the different halting places on the road. 



" In the year J 185, (A. D. 1823,) on the arrival of Yan-ta'-lo-yb' and 

 Yeng-tsheng-ye' with more than thirty other Chinese, and with a royal 

 letter and various cloths and presents from the emperor of China, who 

 desired to cultivate the same kind of friendship as had existed in the time 

 of his grandfather and father, the king appointed the Tsa-re-gyih 

 Ne-myo-men:tha and us as his envoys, to proceed and convey to the 

 residence of the emperor of China a royal letter on gold, and various 

 presents in return. We left the great and golden city of Ya-ta-nd-pu-ra 

 {Ava) on the 18th June, 1823, and in twenty-nine days arrived at the 

 city of Ba-mo, on the 17th July. On the road between Ava and Ba-mo, 

 there are many large cities and villages. On our arrival at Ba-mo, the 

 principal Chinese envoys, YAN-TA-LO-YE'and Yeng-tsheng-ye', dispatch- 

 ed a letter in the Chinese language to Hu'-ta'-lo-yk', the governor of 

 the city M6:myin, informing him of our arrival at Ba-mo with a letter 

 on gold, and other things from the Burmese sun-descended king. The 

 governor of Ba-mo, also, sent orders by letters to the chiefs of the wild Ka- 

 khyens* residing on the hills and in the wood between the two countries 

 of Ava and China. We stopped at Ba-mo twenty-nine days, until the 14th 

 of August. We left Ba-mo on the 15th August, escorted by the Na-k,han 

 (Nga-shan), the city writer Nga-boh, with two hundred followers, and by 

 four hundred Ka-khyens and their chiefs, making altogether six hundred 

 men. In six stages we reached the village and fortified chokey of Luay- 

 laing. On the road between Ba-mo and Luay-laing-ken there are many 

 cities and villagest. At Luay-laing-ken we found the men sent by the 

 governor of M6:myin to receive us, and therefore sent back to their homes 

 the people from Ba-mo, and the Ka-khyens and their chiefs, who had 

 come as our escort. We left Luay-laing-ken with the men and the horses 

 that had been sent from M6:myin to receive us, and after travelling a 



* Wild mountainous race on the frontiers of China. 



t This sentence must have been interpolated by the Burmese ministers, for the 

 country between Ba-mo and this chokey consists of hills and forests inhabited only 

 by the wild Ka-khyens. 



