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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
rapid part of the current, we were compelled 
to come to an anchor late in the evening, two 
miles below the village of Lethakong. 
Sept. 7.—Struggling against the stream, this 
morning, between eight and nine o’clock, we 
struck upon a sand-bank in the middle of the 
river ; but got off in half an hour, without 
injury. Yesterday, the range of hills called in 
our maps Galladzet,— a name not known, how¬ 
ever, to the Burmans,—were in sight, to the 
east; and to-day both these and branches of 
the Arracan mountains were visible, the latter 
lying north-west of us. The breadth of the 
valley of the Irawadi, even here, is therefore 
very inconsiderable. From the mouth of the 
Panlang river, up to Lethakong, both banks 
of the Irawadi are covered every where with 
a narrow belt of the tall reedy grass, already 
mentioned. Behind this belt is a thick and 
continuous forest of middling-sized trees, com¬ 
monly from twenty to forty feet high. The 
most frequent of these was the Acacia data, 
already mentioned. Last evening, a Myosar6, 
or Town-Secretary, in a four-and-twenty-oared 
boat, came down to us from the Wungyi, to 
ascertain how far we had got, and when we 
might be expected at Henzada. To-day ano¬ 
ther dispatch-boat came for the same purpose. 
