TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
19 
Akunwun, or collector of land revenue, of Hen- 
uzawadi, or Pegu. They were importunate in 
their endeavours to persuade us, on the part of 
the Wungyi, that we ought to wait at Hen- 
zada for a formal invitation from the Court; 
which might be expected in four or five days, 
as thirteen days ago intimation of the Mission 
had been sent to Ava. 
Between Donabew and Henzada we saw no 
marks either of commercial or agricultural in¬ 
dustry. The villages are small, and very few 
in number; and some trifling patches of rice 
culture only were to be seen here and there. 
From the nature, however, of this cultivation, 
as well as of the country in which it is carried 
on, the vestiges of culture are indeed so much 
obliterated in a single season, by the rapid 
growth of the tall reedy grass already men¬ 
tioned, that its amount might in reality be 
greater than was apparent to us. In a few 
spots we saw the grass recently cut down, and 
the ground just prepared for receiving the seed. 
Thirty-one years ago. Colonel Symes, and Dr. 
Buchanan Hamilton, whose manuscript journal 
was beside me, found the country in the same 
uncultivated state as I now describe it; so that 
the causes which operated to the prejudice of 
industry and improvement in their time, seem 
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