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go away, and this will appear obvious to your¬ 
selves from the following statement. We were 
not obliged to leave the country for a hundred 
days from the date of the Treaty of Yandabo, 
and your payment of the second instalment. 
Notwithstanding this, the greater portion of the 
troops were immediately embarked, without 
even landing at Kan goon. Transports had ar¬ 
rived at Rangoon for the whole army, long be¬ 
fore the hundred days had expired; but seeing 
that there was no prospect of your paying with¬ 
in the time stipulated, we were compelled to 
send them back, and they had not all returned 
when I left. This has put us to an expense of 
several lacs of rupees, which would have been 
saved had you been more punctual. The Wun- 
dauk, and those who were acting with him, 
were repeatedly urged to complete the pay¬ 
ment ; but down to the period of my leaving 
Rangoon, as I have already mentioned, it had 
not been completed. 
JB. You have given no answer to what we 
said respecting the difficulty of paying and 
counting.— E. The paying and counting was all 
your affair, not ours. A hundred days were 
allowed to you for paying and counting. What 
would you say to a private individual who 
owed a debt payable in one hundred days and 
