TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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CHAPTER VII. 
Conferences renewed.—Employment of Spies.—Description 
of the hills of Sagaing.—Monthly Proclamation of the Bur¬ 
mese enforcing good Morals. —History and description of 
a man covered with hair.—Conference.-—Letters and dis¬ 
patch intercepted.—Visit to the great temple of Kaong- 
m’hu-d’hau, and description of it.—Conference.—Excursion 
to a Salt Lake, and account of the Manufacture of Salt.— 
Conference. 
Nov. 3 .— Yesterday and the day before the 
Burmese officers were busy in preparing a T6, 
or shed, on the river-side, for the conferences: 
their peculiar notions would not allow them to 
hold them at our dwelling, where there was 
ample room, and where all parties might have 
been more conveniently accommodated. At ten 
o’clock to-day they made their appearance, and 
we met them at the Te, which was not above 
fifty yards from our door. The Myowun, or 
Governor of Sagaing, a respectable and intelli¬ 
gent man, sat down with the other officers, with¬ 
out however taking any share in the discussions. 
The conferences commenced by the Burmese of¬ 
ficers producing their own draft of the Commer- 
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