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which it is impossible for me to offer any 
opinion.” 
The Atwenwuns, having made arrangements 
for our paying a visit to Amarapura to-mor¬ 
row, took their departure. I may mention 
here an extraordinary example of the extrava¬ 
gance of Burman compliment. Turning round 
to me immediately before going away, the 
junior Atwenwun congratulated himself upon 
his good fortune in having met “ so valuable 
a friend: a true friend,” he added, “ is not to 
be met with above once in a creation or ex¬ 
istence !” This piece of bombast was delivered 
with immovable gravity. The Burmans, on 
such occasions, make no scruple of borrowing 
assistance from their theological opinions. Sir 
A. Campbell informed me, that at one of the 
negotiations, which preceded the peace, and in 
which the Burmans had no object but that of 
putting off time and deceiving us until the 
force was collected, which was afterwards de¬ 
feated near Prome, one of the chiefs, the Go¬ 
vernor of the province of Sarawadi, a little 
shrewd old man, who was always counting his 
beads, was loud in his praise of all peace-makers; 
and assured the commander of the British army, 
that he in particular would be quite sure of 
