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offerings ; second, to refrain from taking; away life, from stealing, 

 lying, and com;nitting adultery, and from the use of whatever ine- 

 briates ; third, to n peat portions of the kiw (divine) ; fourth, to as- 

 sist one's parents or teacher if they fall into difficulties ; fifth, to re* 

 joice on account of one's good works ; sixth, to invite friends to do 

 the same ; seventh, to abide by the hiw ; eighth, to hsten to the 

 preachi'ig' of the sime ; ninth, to desire to continue in the straight 

 road (to virtue) ; tenth, divinity, law, the ministers of religion, and 

 things belonging to it ; one's parents, teacher, old people, and 

 people of wealth and respectability ; all these are to be honoured. 



(30) In the next life, the rhahdn in question may rise to a high- 

 er grade of being, and return to the same for ten thousand returns 

 of life; and should he become a man, he wi'l have every thing that 

 is good, and be provided for as if he had a tree which produces all 

 the necessaries of life at the nvish. The man who offers the thing to 

 the priest will have his correspoirding good fortune also. 



It seems strange that there is not throughout the book any men- 

 tion made of a certain fancy entertained amongst the Burmans, and 

 looked upon by some as the thing most to be desired, viz. Mrvarif 

 or annihilation. 



Observation by the Rev. Dr. Morrison, referred to in Mr. 

 Knox's Letter, p 271. 



On Note 1. — The translation is too much Anglicized to be satis- 

 factory as to its fidelity. Buddhists speak not of a " Creator of the 

 universe," or the children of God." The translation is not only 

 Anglicized, but slso Christianized. 



There is much that is very interesting in this MS. 



Canton, Nov. \2 1830. K. M. 



Dssc ription of the Climate at Manantoddy, communicated hy Captain Minchin^ 

 Commanding the Wynaud Rangers. 



1832. 



Mean Temp : at 



day light. 

 ** Greatest heat. 

 «Temp: at 12. 



P. M. 

 Extreme Indi- 

 cation of Ther. 

 Mean Tempe- 

 rature. 

 No. of daysRain 

 fell. 



46 



68 



66 

 39.72 

 60 

 0 



53 

 74 



731 



44.78 



651 



0 



63 



781 



76 

 58.79 

 72 



0; 



64 



79 



76 



58o92 

 73 

 7 



66 

 78 



76 



62.81 



73| 

 G 



66 

 72 



71 



62.78 



69 



26 



651 

 68| 



63.70 

 67 

 31 



65^ 

 68| 



671 



61.70 



67 



31 



63 

 72 



70« 



58.74 



68 



10 



63] 

 72 



711 



54.74 



69 



12 



63 

 73 



72 



54.74 



69 



3 



51. T< 



