drawn by a native qf Daw& or Tavay. 229 
to many of the considerable places ; but, as he was not accus- 
tomed to write with our paper and pens, he did the work with 
difficulty, and many of the names were therefore omitted. 
Between the shore of the Bay of Bengal and a chain of hills 
running through the centre of the Malay peninsula, a consi- 
derable portion of the country is occupied by a tribe, which, 
although it speaks a dialect of the Mranma language, has in 
general been subject to Siam. When I was in Ava, however, 
this tribe was subject to the King of the Mranmas. Formerly 
it had princes of its own, who resided at a city named Tanaen- 
sari by the Mranmas, and Tenasserim by Europeans, and 
on this account the tribe is usually called Tanaensari. Some 
time before the year 1784, this tribe had been separated from 
Siam, and reduced to the dominion of Ava ; but soon after the 
Governor, enraged at the execution of his father, rebelled, and 
threw himself under the protection of Siam, by sending a hand- 
some daughter as a present to the King of that country. The 
Siammese, however, were not able to retain possession, much to 
the regret of the inhabitants, but fled with little resistance be- 
fore an army of Mranmas, sent in 1792, to expel them. In 
1795, the country occupied by this tribe was divided into two 
Governments, Dawae or Dhawse and Breit, each under the 
authority of a Lieutenant (Zikkaeh) of the Viceroy (Mrowun) 
of Martaban or Mouttama. 
The Map now under discussion belongs properly to the Go- 
vernment of Dawm alone, with which the compiler, being a na- 
tive, was best acqnaipted ; and this is marked by a dotted line, 
denoting the boundary between it and Breit towards the south, 
and between it and Kalinaun and Je or Ye on the north. Per- 
haps, therefore, in giving an account of this map, I should have 
confined myself entirely to the territory within this boundary ; 
but as no opportunity is likely to offer, I think it best to say 
somewhat concerning the adjacent territories, some of which are 
laid down with tolerable detail in this Map. 
In the first place, however, it is to be remarked, that the 
northern extremity towards Bangoun, Zittaun and Mouttama 
or Martaban, is merely a rude sketch, placed with a view to de- 
note that such places are in that direction ; and in a former 
