North from Ava. ' 79 
we have Sihho, a Shanwa city, seven days journey, or about 
50 G. miles east from Amarapura; and we have Bodusen, thirteen 
days'* journey, or 9^ G. miles NN.E. from Sibho ; this would 
bring Boduaen 54 G. miles S.E. from Banmo, and 115 N.E. by 
N. from Amarapura. But a Muhammedan, who was in the 
battle between the Mranmas and Chinese, and with whom I 
met at Calcutta, told me, that Bodusen was six days’ journey 
from Banmo, and fifteen from Amarapura, which, supposing 
the accompanying map to be right, would require the day’s jour- 
ney between Banmo and Bodusen to be 9 G. miles, and between 
Amarapura and Bodugen to be 7| miles, in place of 7| miles, 
assumed as the day’s journey in this map, — a difference of 
little importance in considering such rude materials. When 
we were at Ava, Bodusen was governed by a Mranma offi- 
cer, with the rank of Mrosagri, having under him a cus- 
tom-house, and a small military guard. The inhabitants are 
Shan, the place probably having been originally a portion 
of the Lowa Shan, or Northern Laos, and seems to have on 
its east the country of the Kakhioen, who form the greater 
part of die population along the eastern frontier of Yunnan, 
partly independent, and partly in the territory belonging to the 
Prince (Zabua) of Banmo, and who, with the Wild Lowas, are 
probably included by the Chinese under the general name Lolo, 
a people which, in the maps of Du Halde, occupies a large por- 
tion of the south-west parts of Yunnan. 
In the accompanying map, the Shue Li, mentioned by the 
Ambassador to China as entering the left bank of the Erawadi 
above Miadaun, is altogether omitted, and Mradaun (evident- 
ly another orthography for Miadaun) and Shue Li are trans- 
ferred to the other side of the great river, while Khiundaun, 
placed by the Ambassador on the right of the Erawadi, is in 
the accompanying map brought to the left, to occupy the room 
of Miadaun. Which authority is preferable, I cannot say ; 
for although another map by the slave formerly mentioned, 
(Edin. Phil. Journ. No. III.), places Miadaun on the right, and 
Khiundaun on the left of the Erawadi, yet there is no doubt 
that a river at least as large as the Thames enters from the 
left, it being that which passes to the eastward of Tengye and 
Tienma, jn the maps of China. 
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