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JOUllNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
we brought were offered as marks of friendship 
only. When you recollect the issue of the late 
war, was it not generous on the part of the Go¬ 
vernor-General to send an embassy and presents 
in this way ? Was it not conferring a favour ? 
(Here the junior Atwen-wun very readily re¬ 
plied, “ Yes, yes.”) The Mission was convey¬ 
ed to the Palace on elephants miserably equip¬ 
ped, compared to those on which your own 
officers of all ranks rode. We were made to 
dismount at the corner of the palisade of the 
Palace. Your own officers rode in their litters 
to the very gate. Your officers of every rank 
made use of their umbrellas to the very gate of 
the Palace. We were rudely requested to take 
ours down long even before reaching the Rung- 
d’hau. A Sare-d’haugyi wanted us to make an 
obeisance to the Palace when we were not near 
it, although I had repeatedly caused it to be 
signified that we should make no obeisance ex¬ 
cept to the King in person, and your officers 
had acquiesced in this arrangement: this was 
an act of gratuitous rudeness. I beg that the 
Sare-d’haugyi may be reprimanded. The list of 
the Governor-General’s presents was read along 
with the list of presents from Saubwas and 
others. There was great impropriety in this, 
which cannot escape yourselves. I mention all 
