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imprisoned him twice as a correctional punish¬ 
ment ; but finding him irreclaimable, he de¬ 
prived him of his estate, and confiscated his 
personal property. 
In the evening, we came to an anchor under 
an island about two miles below a village on the 
western bank, called Nga-m’hya-n ga (the little 
fish-hook). 
Sept. 27.—At half-past eleven o’clock this 
forenoon we were abreast of Tarup-Myo, or Chi¬ 
nese Town, which is distant from the river, on 
its eastern bank, about two miles: the spires of 
its temples only were visible. At twelve o’clock 
we passed the confluence of the Irawadi (Irawati) 
and Kyendwen rivers. The prospect afforded 
by their junction is not, as we expected to find 
it, imposing. Both rivers are here confined to 
a comparatively narrow bed; and the tongue of 
land which divides them is so low and covered 
with reeds, that it may be easily mistaken for 
an island, and consequently the smaller river, the 
Kyen-dwen, for a branch of the larger one. 
The proper orthography of the Kyen-dwen is 
Kyang-twang, pronounced Kyen-dwen. I may 
take this opportunity of explaining one difficulty 
in rendering Burman words into Roman let¬ 
ters. The sound given to a final consonant is 
regulated by rules of euphony, which are per- 
