36 Dr Hamilton cm a Map of the Route between 
had a garrison and customhouse, and it was probably the same 
with the Mowun or Launsoen of the embassy. There the 
Chinese embarked on a river, and in twenty-one days reached 
Ava. It was probably on the river passing Santa that they em- 
barked, as from Mowun the embassy was three days in reach- 
ing Panmo, which is on the bank of the Erawadi, where the ri- 
ver from Santa joins it. 
Panmo or Bhanmo, as the slave who composed the general 
map wrote, is the capital of the principality belonging to the am- 
bassador, and is called Singgai Tssen by the Chinese, The 
same people call the Erawadi by the name Kiangnga or Great 
Fish River, Kiang in the Chinese language implying a great 
river, and Aho a small one, in the same manner as in the 
Mranma dialect the former is called Mrit, and the latter 
Khiaun. Many of these small rivers, however, it must be ob- 
served, are larger than the Thames at Windsor. From the cir- 
cumstances above mentioned, the authors of the Universal His- 
tory must be wrong in supposing the river of Ava or Erawadi 
to be the same with the Lu or Loukiang of Yunnan, and the 
reason assumed for their hypothesis is quite unsatisfactory, for 
they say, that there is no other river in Yunnan, on that side, 
so big as the river of Siam, to which the four Chinese compared 
it ; but the fact is, that the four Chinese did not embark until 
they came to the frontier, and seem only then, as I have said, 
to have embarked on a branch of the Ava river, at a town three 
days journey from the great Erawadi, while they must have 
crossed the Loukiang half-way between Yongchang and Teng- 
ye, or seven days journey from where they embarked ; and in 
reality the part of the river Loukiang, between Yongchang and 
Tengye, according to D'Anville, is about 105 miles in a direct 
line from the frontier, on the bank of the river passing Santa, 
where I suppose the Chinese embarked. But, besides, I was 
assured by the officer, who gave me the account of the map 
here published, and who, as belonging to Panmo, on the fron- 
tier of China, must have been perfectly well informed, that the 
Erawadi or Kiangnga never enters the province of Yunnan, 
but keeps far to the west of it, the whole principality of Panmo 
being interposed. 
