TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
17 
Sept . 8.—We reached Lethakong (Fine- 
breeze Hill) yesterday, at about twelve o’clock. 
This is a small village, of which the immedi¬ 
ate neighbourhood is somewhat higher than 
the surrounding land; whence its name, which, 
at the present moment, was peculiarly inap¬ 
plicable ; for there was not a breath of air 
stirring, and the village was flooded by the 
rise of the river, so that the inhabitants were 
seen wading from one house to another. At 
this place we were obliged to remain all day, 
waiting for the gun-boats and our baggage, 
which had taken a short cut by a narrow 
branch of the river, which, commencing about 
five miles above Donabew, joins the Irawadi 
at the village of Lethakong. We took the 
opportunity of this delay to replenish our stock 
of wood. Old teak was obtained for this pur¬ 
pose at a cheap price; and forms so good a 
fuel, that our engineers gave it a preference 
to Indian coals. Our servants brought us from 
the market a supply of fresh fish, among which 
was the Lockup,* although we could not be 
less now than a hundred and twenty miles 
from the sea; and this is considered a fish of 
salt water only. Fish in various forms, and of 
* The Coins vacti of Buchanan Hamilton. 
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