TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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himself to be thirty years of age. He was a 
native of the district of Maiyong-gyi, a coun¬ 
try of Lao, situated on the Saluen, or Mar¬ 
taban river, and three months’ journey from 
Ava. The Saubwa, or chief of the country, 
presented him to the King as a curiosity when 
a child of five years of age, and he had remained 
in Ava ever since. His height was five feet 
three inches and a half, which is about the or¬ 
dinary stature of the Burmese. His form was 
slender, if compared with the usually robust 
make of the Hindoo-Chinese races, and his con¬ 
stitution as rather delicate. In his complexion 
there was nothing remarkable, although upon 
the whole he was perhaps rather fairer than the 
ordinary run of Burmese. The colour of his 
eyes was a dark brown, not so intense as that 
of the ordinary Burman. The same thing may 
be said of the hair of the head, which was also 
a little finer in texture, and less copious. 
The whole forehead, the cheeks, the eyelids, 
the nose, including a portion of the inside, the 
chin—in short, the whole face, with the excep¬ 
tion of the red portion of the lips, were covered 
with a fine hair. On the forehead and cheeks 
this was about eight inches long; and on the 
nose and chin, about four inches. In colour, it 
was of a silvery grey; its texture was silky, lank, 
