TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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alongside the steam-vessel; and among our vi¬ 
sitors were two chiefs, who had taken an active 
and friendly part with us during the war. 
One of them said, that it was unsafe for him 
to remain in the country, and that he had 
every thing ready to emigrate, along with the 
English, to our new settlements to the south 
of the Saluen river. We anchored for the 
night a few miles above the village of Pan- 
lang. This branch of the Irawadi is notori¬ 
ous for being infested with swarms of mus- 
quitoes : they were extremely troublesome last 
night; and our servants, who had no protec¬ 
tion against them, did not get a wink of sleep. 
We met in the course of the day five gun¬ 
boats, and took two of them along with us as 
far as Henzada, having on board a detachment 
of an officer and twenty European soldiers. 
Sept. 4.—We had taken in tow two of the 
luggage-boats; which so greatly impeded the 
progress of the steam-vessel, that we did not 
reach the Irawadi until this morning at nine 
o’clock. Its first appearance is not striking; 
and even now, in the height of the rains, it 
scarcely appeared a mile broad. The first vil¬ 
lage, upon its left bank, is Yangain-chain-yah 
(Pan-gen-san-ra), now a very trifling place, but 
before the war a populous village. 
The Panlang river, from Pagoda Point to 
