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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
not know the meaning, when the individual is 
a member of the royal family. The late King’s 
title (of his own selection, of course,) consisted 
of twenty-one syllables ; and as no word in the 
Burman language exceeds two syllables, and the 
greater proportion are of one only, it may readily 
be imagined what an assemblage of virtues and 
high qualities it must have embraced. The 
Saye-d’haugyis was Men-ten-si-thu. He was 
accompanied by two other chiefs, the old Go¬ 
vernor of the province of Myit-sin, and the 
“ North Commandant of Horse.” They came 
on board, after ascertaining, by a previous mes¬ 
sage sent from the shore, that the promised En¬ 
voy was present. The conduct of Men-ten-si- 
thu and his associates was extremely civil and 
decorous : they put few questions, and no im¬ 
proper ones, and showed none of the importuni¬ 
ty to which I had been too much accustomed at 
Siam, and even Cochin China, under similar cir¬ 
cumstances. A writer sat behind the officers of 
the deputation, and the chief dictated a report 
to him on the spot, which, when we arrived at 
Kyauk-ta-long, was immediately dispatched to 
Ava by a horseman. 
Sept. 29.—Last night and this morning we 
made excursions into the country about Kyauk- 
ta-long. Several roads for wheel-carriages lead 
