TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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memory of his friend and preceptor, Professor 
Abildgoord, of Copenhagen. 
Last night, a Wundauk* and three Sayed- 
augyis arrived as a deputation from Ava to re¬ 
ceive us, and, immediately after my return from 
our walk, they came on board in three royal 
barges, covered all over, not excepting the oars, 
with gold, and having each forty rowers. These 
boats are themselves exceedingly neat and hand¬ 
some, but the rowers were not uniformly dress¬ 
ed ; and, upon the whole, this parade made by 
no means so good an appearance as the royal 
barges in Cochin China. The Wundauk and 
his associates were received on the poop of the 
steam-vessel. They put very few questions, and 
their demeanour altogether was unexceptionably 
frank and civil. They requested us to move up 
to Ava as soon as we were disposed, and that 
they would accompany us, expressing regret 
that we had disappointed them of the pleasure 
of meeting us at Pugan, as it was the inten¬ 
tion of the King to send them so far, had we 
not come up so expeditiously. The Wun¬ 
dauk himself was a young man, of about eight- 
* From Wun, a burden, and tauk , a prop; which may be 
rendered, in English, assistant, or deputy; the Wun-tauk 
being, in fact, a deputy to the Wungyi. The letter t is here 
euphonically pronounced d , as in many other cases, 
