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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
At three in the afternoon we came to an 
anchor at Sen-y wa, or Elephant Village; for 
this was a station of the King’s elephants. 
Here, a good opportunity offering, we com¬ 
pleted such a stock of wood as might last us 
until we should reach Prome. During our 
short stay, Dr. Wallich’s plant gatherers land¬ 
ed, and brought him some new and interest¬ 
ing specimens. Among these I may mention 
a new Lagerstroemia , which he has called in- 
signis . The beautiful lilac corolla of this fine 
plant measured five inches in diameter. Oppo¬ 
site to Sen-y wa is a woody promontory, about 
one hundred feet high, composed, according 
to Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, of sandstone: its 
name in Burman is Akaok-taong, or the Hill 
of Customs. The channel of the river, at this 
place, is so narrow, as not to exceed three quar¬ 
ters of a mile : it is, however, deep and rapid. 
In the evening we came to an anchor off the 
upper end of the village of Nyaong-sare (reli¬ 
gious fig scribe); before the war, a station of 
war-boats. Nyaong-sare is a large village. As 
we passed along it, very close to the shore, the 
whole inhabitants, young and old, seemed to 
be drawn to the bank, through curiosity to see 
the steam-vessel. They appeared to amount to 
several hundreds. 
