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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
never procurable upon any question of sta¬ 
tistics.* 
Pe-nan-k’hyaung is but a petty village. It 
is situated in a narrow dell on the river-side, 
the sand-hills forming a sort of amphitheatre 
behind it. About a mile below it is a small 
village where coarse earthen pots are manufac¬ 
tured for the petroleum; and a short way above 
it a second village, which is also a port for ex¬ 
portation. At this last we counted twenty- 
three boats. 
Sept. 23 .—We left Re-nan-k’hyaung at day¬ 
light, and at the distance of about three miles 
above it came to the Pen river, a little stream 
which here falls into the Ira wadi on its eastern 
bank. There is a village of the same name at 
its mouth. At two o’clock, favoured by a 
strong southerly breeze, we reached Pa-k’han- 
nge, or little Pa-k’han, a very pretty village, 
and of considerable size. Opposite to it, on the 
western bank, is a straggling village, which is 
four miles distant from the larger one of Sem- 
begliewn (Sen-p’hyu-kywan, white elephant 
island), and has the same name. This is the 
best and most frequented route from the banks 
* More accurate details were afterwards obtained in Ava, 
and will be given in the sequel. 
