North from Avd. SI 
is their proper boundary, and that of course the Mogauh of 
the Mranmas, which they call Mungun, with its dependencies 
Paisendusen and Khandi, belonged to them but when I was 
in the country, their prince, called a Zabua by the Mranmas, 
resided at a town named Saundut ; and Mogaun was held by a 
chief with the same title, who was included by the government 
of Ava among the Shanwas. I have, however, strong reasons 
to think, from verbal information received through the slave to 
the heir-apparent, that all the Shan, on both banks of the Era- 
Avadi, as well as of the Khiaendusen, were originally of the same 
race, calling themselves Tailung, and differing somewhat from 
the Shanwas, who inhabit the country between the proper terri- 
tory of the Mranmas and the Saluaen river. The policy of the 
present dynasty in Ava has been to separate both nations into 
a number of petty principalities, governed by hereditary chiefs, 
descended mostly from their ancient princes, but now quite un- 
connected, and often opposed in personal interests. 
The accompanying map does not contain so full a view of the 
country on the upper part of the Khiaenduaen, as the general 
one published in Number III. of this Journal, as it does not 
extend to the place where this river is formed by the union of 
the Uru and Naindain rivers, which probably arise from the 
hills bounding Asam on the south, in about 27° of N. Lat. The 
Khiaenduaen -receives from the right a river named Narinzara, 
the mouth of which, according to this map, is 11 days journey 
from that of the Khiaenduaen, which, at the same rate as the 
days journeys on the Era wadi, according to this map, would 
give a distance of 78 G. miles in a direct line. From the mputh 
of the Narinzara to Saundut, the capital of the Tailung or KasL 
Shan, this authority makes almost eight days journey, say 54 
miles ; and from thence to Munipura, the capital of Kasi, is 
eight days journey, which agrees very well with the situation 
commonly given to that city, the course of the Khijenduasn and 
Mukhiaun being placed nearer the Erawadi than is done in Mr 
Arrow smith’s map of Asia, which makes the space between the 
two rivers too wide ; as, according to the accompanying map, 
the distance between the mouth of the Narinzara and Erawadi 
is only eight days journey, or about 57 G. miles in a direct 
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