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or neck stock applied to tliem,onthe plea that they had no 

 right to go to Penang to trade. I never afterwards re» 

 eeived any payment for my goods. 



We remained in confinement for ahout one month, 

 when it was ordered^ that we should again be put in our 

 boats, our legs in irons and be sent to^ Mergui ; this was 

 done and the soldiers rowed the boats. On arriving: 

 there I obtained my personal liberty by making a pre- 

 sent to the officer on board the boat of a ring which- 1 had 

 caused to be purchased at Penang for 80 dollars. 



The Doinwon's Tsikkai or Lieutenant was at Mergui. 

 He had been an acquaintance of mine at Amrapoora, and' 

 i remained under his protection- for about 15 days when 

 he directed me to proceed with my boat to Martaban to 

 make some purchases for him. The Tsikkai told me that 

 the Doinwon bad ordered that some one should be deput- 

 ed to demand the completion of the levies of troops from 

 Dalla, Rangoon, Pantano, Syream and Donabew and that 

 I must proceed under another officer on that duty. It 

 was now the rainy season, the month of Gnayoa. Nine 

 boats started from Mergui ; every one of which was 

 wrecked. I never heard of any part of their crews being 

 saved, except six men of my own boat which was wrecked 

 near the river Guv/ai in the neighbourkood of Bapain. 

 The boat struck on a sand about 4 o'clock in the morning 

 and we had just time to seize a few oars and other spars to 

 enable us to keep afloat. Two others and myself tied an 

 oar and one of the masts of the boat together, and by this 

 means after floating about all dciy, reached the shore just 

 before sunset ; we were almost exhausted and did not find 

 any others of our companions till the next morning, when 

 we discovered three more, as we were going along the shore. 



We hadnothing to eat with us and had recourse to the fruit 

 of the Neepal palm to allay our hunger. Two of us had 

 saved our putzos which being torn up and divided amongst 

 us afforded just sufficient covering for decency. We spent 

 two days and nights, wandering along the uninhabited and 

 inhospitable coast, constantly annoyed by myriads of mus- 

 quitoes, which deprived us of all rest. We at length arriv- 

 ed at an encampment of motzos or hunters by whom we 



