Sli Dr Hamilton on a Alnp of the Route between 
is of course sounded as P, such being a general habit among 
the Mranmas. 
The 35 days journey from where the embassy landed to the 
Hongchi or' Canton river, at 16 J miles a day, would give a di- 
rect distance of 577 miles. This distance from the Canton ri- 
ver, where it enters the province of Yunnan, would place Kue- 
zo, where the embassy disembarked, on the bank of the great 
lake Tongtinghow, communicating with the Yangtse, up which 
I suppose the embassy to have come. 
The distance between Kuezo and the next city, where the 
embassy halted, is not mentioned. This city, the residence of 
a Chinese viceroy, is by the Mranmas called Mainzhi ; but the 
officer sent to explain the map said, that its Chinese name is 
Yaenan, and no doubt it is the Yunnan of our maps. From 
Yunnan the embassy returned in five days to the town which 
the Mranmas call Wunzhaen, and the Chinese Yungssenfou. 
Now four Chinese, who went from lumian or Yunnan to Ava, 
as mentioned in the Universal History, (vol. vii. p. 123.) went 
first to luncham, which, in the Missionaries’ or D’Anville’s map, 
according to the compiler, is called Yongchang, and this no 
doubt is a different orthography for Yungsaen. Although the 
embassy, according to the map, took only five days to this jour- 
ney, the Chinese took eighteen, and the distance in a direct line 
is about 220 miles. It is therefore to be suspected, either that 
5 has been placed in the map by the copyist instead of 15, or 
that in this part of their journey, some particular cause induced 
the embassy to an extraordinary haste ; for the officer said, that 
the usual route from Yunnan to Tengyechiou passes by Tchou- 
hiong. Tali and Yongchang, between the two last of which 
alone usually takes seven days. In this part of the route the 
Kioulong or Mmkhaun is crossed in a wooden chest, suspended 
from iron chains, which are stretched across the river, and drawn 
backward and forward by ropes. 
From Wunzhsen the embassy proceeded five days journey to 
a town called Momiin, which, according to the officer, is the 
Taenyuensu of the Chinese. Now, the four Chinese already 
mentioned, from luncham, in four days, went to Tienniotheou, 
evidently the same with the Taenyuensu of the ambassador’s 
officer, and with the Tengyechew of D’Anville, a town about 
