JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



No. 72.— December, 1837. 



I. — Abstract Journal of an Expedition to Kiang Hung on the Chinese 

 Frontier, starting from Moulmein on the 13M December, 1836. By 

 Lieut. T. E. MacLeod, Assistant to the Commissioner of the Tenas- 

 serim Provinces, with a route map. 



[Extracted from a Report to E. A. Blundell, Esq. Commissioner, and com- 

 municated by the Right Honorable the Governor of Bengal.] 



Having left Maulamyaing on the 13th of December, 1836, I reached 

 the village of Pike Tsouny on the 1 6th, and was detained there by the 

 non-arrival of the elephants until the 21st, when I finally quitted it 

 and reached Labong on the 9th of January, 1837. I found the Chou- 

 koua who since Chou Che Wit's death, had conjointly with Chou 

 Raja Bri't the late Tsaubua's son, exercised the government over the 

 province, absent at Bankok and no Tsaubua nominated ; and it was 

 with reference to the appointment of one, that these officers had been 

 to the capital. 



Though I had received information of this previous to my arrival 

 there, yet as the chiefs of Labong were the first to court and establish 

 a friendly communication with us, and as our principal supplies of 

 cattle had been drawn from their territories, I determined on deliver- 

 ing your letter and presents to the officiating ruler. 



My reception at the place was most friendly, and I had an interview 

 with the Chou Raja Wu'n the day after my arrival. He expressed 

 himself glad to see me, and assured me of his anxious desire to con- 

 tinue on the friendly footing they had always been on with us, to afford 

 our merchants every assistance and protection in their power, and 

 to facilitate as much as possible a free intercourse between our coun- 

 tries. 



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