Tartary and Amarapura^ hy an Ambassador to China. 39 
wai'd, in order to join it to the Loukiang ; but I suspected, that 
he should have continued it straight south, to join the river of 
Tchoudsong, and that the united streams should have received 
the river passing Tengye and Santa, as well as that farther 
south, which the Mranmas call Shue Li. On this hypothesis, 
the Saluaen or Loukiang would be made to rise from the moun- 
tains which separate Yunnan from Thibet, and both the Mae- 
khaun and Erawadi, or Kioulong and Kiangnga, would have 
much longer courses, as the officer of Panmo asserts is the case. 
This latter circumstance weighed strongly with me, and I of 
course conceived the Kenpou to be the same with the Khioen- 
duaen, although I received several accounts, stating that this 
river proceeded no farther than the country of the Kasi Shan 
or Nora, which bounds Asam on the south. 
Both Mr Dairy mple, however, and Mr Arrowsmith seem to 
have thought it rash to infer an error in the P. Regis ; and, as 
I am willing to subscribe to their opinion, I have formed an- 
other hypothesis, Mr Arrowsmith’s, for the reasons abov^ men- 
tioned, being, I think, untenable, as it would make the Khigen- 
duaen larger than the Erawadi. We may suppose that the 
Kenpou is the principal head of the Erawadi, and, after leaving 
Thibet, and receiving a branch from the Brahmaputra, which 
I belieye to be the case, that it proceeds south-east to join the 
river from Tchoudsong in about the 26th degree of N; latitude. 
Thus, we have two branches of the Erawadi arising from the 
alpine regions of Thibet covered with perpetual snow, while the 
Khiaenduaen rises from the lower mountains bounding Asam on 
the south, in about the 25° of N. lat. If this hypothesis be 
adopted, then D'Anville and Dalrymple are so far right, that a 
portion of the Sanpoo or Brahmaputra river enters into the 
Erawadi, and that the Loukiang is not any part of that river, 
but forms a river of Pegu ; although D’Anville is so far wrong, 
that it is not the river on which the capital of Pegu stands. 
Major Renneli, again, will be perfectly right in bringing the 
principal stream of the Sanpoo into Bengal ; but wrong in ma- 
king the Kenpou the river of Arakan, and the Loukiang that 
of Ava. 
To return to the ambassador's map. — At Panmo he was in 
the capital of his own territory, one of the nine principalities of 
