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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
and-twenty, one of the handsomest Barmans I 
ever saw. He had been promoted to this high 
rank, which is equal to that of an Atwen-wun, 
and next to that of a Wungyi, on account of 
his father, Maong-shwe-men, who was also a 
Wundauk, and killed on the 7th of July 1824, 
along with Thongba Wungyi, in the action of 
which I have already given some account. 
At ten o’clock we quitted Pauk-to, and at 
noon arrived at Ava, anchoring opposite to the 
house constructed for our reception. An At¬ 
wen-wun'* came on board almost immediately, 
to compliment us, and attend us ashore to our 
house, where a Wungyi was ready to receive 
us. The Atwen-wun in question proved to be 
Maung-pa-rauk, the same who had signed the 
Treaty of Yandabo, but who now discharges the 
office of Kyi-wun, or Lord of the Granaries- 
Our party landed, and entered an inclosure 
formed by a bamboo railing. At the front gate 
of this we were met by the Wungyi Maun-la- 
kaing, who handed me to a lar^e temporary 
house in the centre of the inclosure, where chairs 
were ready for us. The conversation which en¬ 
sued was not of a very interesting nature ; but, 
* From Atwen, interior, and wun, a burden. The word may 
be translated Privy Counsellor; while the term Wungyi may 
be rendered Secretary of State. 
