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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
The conduct of the Burmans, in their predatory 
excursions, is cruel and ferocious to the last de¬ 
gree, and scarcely any people of Asia have more 
greatly abused the right of conquest. They are 
not themselves unaware of the barbarous spirit 
in which their wars are conducted. “ You see 
us here/ 5 said some of the chiefs to Mr. Judson, 
“ a mild people, living under regular laws. Such 
is not the case when w^e invade foreign countries. 
We are then under no restraints—we give way 
to all our passions—we plunder and murder with¬ 
out compunction or control. Foreigners should 
beware how they provoke us when they know 
these things.” This was said at the commence¬ 
ment of the late war, and when the Burmese 
detachments were preparing to invade Cassay, 
Cachar, and Assam. They appear to have kept 
their word. Maong-kayo, a Bur man chief, in¬ 
vaded Cachar in 1824. I took the examinations, 
in June 1826, of two of the prisoners who had 
been made in this expedition. The following, 
which conveys a frightful picture of the brutal 
ferocity of this people, is the deposition of one 
of them ; and that of the other agreed with it in 
every essential point :— £i My name is Mahomet 
Huffy. I am a native of the village of IJdar- 
bund, in the country of Cachar. I have been a 
prisoner of war in Ava. I was seized at my na- 
