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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
be bad abundance of venison, killed by the le¬ 
gitimate laws of the chase. 
The officer of Government, whom we met, 
with his wife and family, on the river, turned 
out to be the Myowun of Prome, going to 
Henzada to have an interview with the Wung- 
yi. He had hailed us as we passed him, and 
informed us that he was the Pri-wun—that is, 
o 
the Wun, or Myowun, of Pri, pronounced 
Pyi, which is the proper name of Prome ; and 
this our Burman interpreters had understood 
“ Rewun,” adding Rangoon upon their own 
conjecture. On ascertaining who we were, he 
returned for the purpose of going back to 
Prome, there to receive the Mission. He now 
came on board to visit us. I had seen this 
chief at Rangoon, shortly after the peace, for 
he was one of a deputation sent down from 
Ava to confer with the British Commissioners. 
At the same time, the officer directed by the 
Wungyi to accompany us to Ava, overtook us 
and came on board. This person, a man of 
about sixty, I had also seen at Rangoon before. 
His name was Maong-l’ha, and he was formerly 
Governor of Bassien. 
Sept. 14.—The Myowun of Prome, and the 
old Myowun of Bassien, our conductor, had 
intreated us not to quit Myan-aong until the 
