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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
The only exception amongst the Burmans is 
one short book of a few leaves, commonly writ¬ 
ten on sheets of ivory, called Kamawa; and 
the form of the character in this instance, al¬ 
though essentially the same, varies a good deal 
from that in use among the Siamese. 
The next temple which we reached has the 
name of Baud’hi, a Pali name of the sacred fig. 
This is of the same general form as the rest but 
wants the wings, and is altogether much smaller. 
It is in good order, and is a neat and pretty 
building, having at a little distance much the 
look of an English village church. On the out¬ 
side of it frequent images of Budd’ha appear in 
niches, and the spire especially is crowded with 
them. We thought this the best specimen of 
Burman architecture we had any where seen. 
The accompanying drawing will convey a bet¬ 
ter notion of it than I can give in writing. We 
had been informed, that in a portico of this 
temple had been collected a great number of 
stones with inscriptions on them. These ac¬ 
cordingly we found, and to the number of no 
less than fifty-three. These stones were always 
small slabs of sandstone, exactly resembling, as 
I have said of those which we saw at Sa-le, a 
tombstone in an English country churchyard 
at the head of a grave. Some were mutilated, 
