^ ^70 Dr Hamilton m a Map of Ava, dr ami 
capital of which is Kiainrounkri. When I was at Amarapura, 
this would appear to have been held as a principality tributary 
to Ava. 
South from the Tarout Shan, on both sides of the Maekhaun 
river, is the country of the Lsenzsen Shan, evidently the same 
with Lanjang, or Southern Laos of the Universal History 
{p. 146.), although the authors of this learned work were mis^ 
taken in supposing Lanjang to be the name of the capital, 
which is called Zandapuri. 
It was stated at Ava in 1795, that these four principalities of 
Shan, namely, Yun, Lowa, Tarout, and Laenzsen, were go^ 
verned by an equal number of hereditary chiefs, tributary to 
tlie king, and held in subjection by two great military officers, 
residing with strong garrisons at Kiainsin and Mainkhain, near 
the Mmkhaun river. Since that time, there is reason to suppose 
that the King of Cochinchina has wrested from Ava, not only the 
two eastern principalities, but also these two strongholds, which 
seem to form the country that in the Universal History (p. 152.) 
is called the provinces of Kyanseng and Kemerat, in which case, 
the river called in that work Menantay, must be the Msekoup 
of the slave ; and the territory belonging to these strongholds 
originally belonged to the Lowa Shan, who now occupy only 
the western portion of their territory. 
South from the Lsenzsan, the slave’s map has, on both sides 
of tlie Maekhaun, the ludara Shan, subject to the ludara king, 
or Siam. This is the country called Kamboja in the Universal 
History, and Cambodia by Mr Arrowsmith. It has seldom 
been independent, but lias generally been tributary to either 
Cochinchina or Siam. The latter was the case in 1795 ; but I 
believe the power of Cochinchina has since extended over this 
as well as over the other countries on the Maekhaun. 
On the mountainous tract east from the lower part of the 
Maekhaun, in this map, very much reduced from its proportion 
of extent, the slave plaees Wild Lawa, evidently the same with 
the Loys of the Universal History (p. 4S5.), that is, the ori- 
ginal inhabitants of Champa or Siampa, who have been long 
subject to the Cochinchinese. 
North from these Lawa, along the sea-coast, the map places 
die Kioli^achin Shan, which term here evidently includes both 
