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tain the British force pending farther explana¬ 
tion, greatly alarmed the Wungyi and his 
friends, who employed various subterfuges and 
evasions to explain away the construction at¬ 
tempted to be put on the Treaty, and the sub¬ 
ject was finally dropped by mutual consent. 
Various other propositions were made by 
the Wungyi, almost every one of them imply¬ 
ing, in some shape or another, an infraction of 
the existing engagement; but from the recep¬ 
tion given to that above mentioned, they were 
not very warmly insisted upon. By the sup¬ 
plementary Convention concluded at Yandabo, 
it was stipulated that no Burman force should 
come within forty taings , or about eighty miles, 
from Rangoon, until the whole British army 
had embarked. This stipulation, which was 
much approved of by the Burmese negociators 
at the time, as a prudent precaution to prevent 
the local authorities of the two nations from 
clashing, became afterwards a subject of much 
uneasiness, in consequence of the facility which 
it afforded, in the meanwhile, for the emigra¬ 
tion of the discontented, and the danger of in¬ 
surrectionary movements on the part of the 
Talains, in the interval between the embarka¬ 
tion of the British troops and the occupation of 
Rangoon by a Burman force. Various attempts 
