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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
meeting his reward in some distinguished and 
elevated transmigration, if through his means 
the British granted a favourable peace to the 
Burmans. I was present when Sir A. Campbell 
saw this person for the first time afterwards; 
and when he was reminded of the compliment 
in question, the old man was nothing abashed, 
but joined very heartily in the laugh which the 
recollection of this circumstance created. 
Dr. Wallich returned to-day from a botani¬ 
cal excursion to the range of mountains lying 
east of Ava, which he performed with the sanc¬ 
tion of the Bur man Government. The follow¬ 
ing is the narrative of this short but interesting 
journey, which was replete with botanical dis¬ 
coveries :— 
“ I left Sagaing with Lieutenant Montmo¬ 
rency at half-past eleven o’clock on the forenoon 
of the 22d of November, and crossed the Irawadi 
opposite to the mouth of the Myit-nge, or little 
river, which bounds the town of Ava to the 
east. The early part of this day’s journey was 
along the right bank of that stream, the course 
of which is remarkably tortuous,—more so, I 
think, than that of the river Gumtee in Hin- 
dostan, which takes its name from this circum¬ 
stance. We passed two villages, and saw some 
fields of cotton and rice, with several gardens 
