40 Dr Hamilton on a Map of the Route between 
the Shanmas or Mrelap Shan, as they are called by the Mran-^ 
mas ; but by the Chinese, this people is called Payge, while 
Lorniim is the name the}^ give to the Mranmas, or people of 
Ava. In going from Panmo to Amarapura, to render an ac- 
count of his mission, the ambassador took fourteen days ; so 
that, the distance being nearly 150 miles in a direct line, he 
must have come at the of eleven miles a day. Zabbaehnago, 
the Mranma town highest on the Erawadi, is five days of these 
journeys from Amarapura, and the boundary of the Shanwas 
may therefore be about sixty miles from the capital, leaving the 
breadth of the Shanwa territory, between the Mranma boun- 
dary on the Erawadi, and Yunnan on the Panmo, above 100 
miles. Amarapura is the Pali name for the city called Aenwa 
zit (New Ava) in the vulgar dialect of the Mranmas, and has 
been the capital during the late king’s reign. In this map, it 
is called Shueprido, or the Golden Royal Residence, which, 
among the courtiers of Ava, is a common manner of expression, 
as is also Mrodogri, or the City of the Great King. 
The Shue Li, which in the map is called a Khiaun or small 
river, has a course of above 200 miles in a direct line, and wa- 
ters a country of that length, and between 40 and 50 miles 
wide. About 40 or 50 miles below its mouth, the map places 
the entrance of another stream, joining the Erawadi on the right, 
and called the Msehzha. Some way above the mouth of the 
Shue Li, this map places, on the same side of the Erawadi with 
the Maehzha, another small river called the Kokue, which, in 
another map, probably by mistake, is called Shue Li ; but the 
two maps hereabout differ a good deal in the relative situations 
of several towns. 
Between the Erawadi and the frontier of Yunnan, and above 
Panmo, the map places two cities, according to the officer sub- 
ject to its prince. These are called Kakkio and Waenmo ; but 
we have no rule to judge how far these are from his capital ; 
nor do I find them mentioned in any other map, unless we sup- 
pose, that two cities placed in another map in a similar situa- 
tion, but called by other names, are the same, the other names 
having been given by mistake. In this case, the nearest to 
Panmo would be five days journey beyond that city, and the 
other would be two days journey farther ; but this map, giving 
