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return, we expect that you will not forcibly de¬ 
tain any natives of our country who may hap¬ 
pen to be in your territory,— B. The custom of 
the English and the Burmans is different in the 
matter to which you allude. What we said in 
respect to Mendama and other Talaings was said 
in friendship. We do not claim any one.” 
The present appeared a favourable oppor¬ 
tunity for claiming the native prisoners who 
had been seized by the Burmans in their incur¬ 
sions into Cassay, Cachar, and Munnipore. The 
terms of the eleventh article of the Treaty of 
Yandabo required, even by the Burman inter¬ 
pretation, that all persons coming under the 
name of Kula-net , or “ black strangers,” should 
be delivered up. Several thousand natives of 
Cassay, Cachar, and Assam, I had ascertained 
while at Rangoon, were prisoners amongst the 
Burmans ; and since my arrival at Ava, I found 
that, besides these, there were above one hun¬ 
dred and fifty natives of Sylhet in a state of 
captivity. These were removed to Amarapura 
upon our arrival. The day we visited that place, 
they were removed from thence to a distance of 
three hours’ journey, that they might have no 
opportunity of representing their case to us. 
46 E . You may be assured that none of your 
former subjects will be retained by us contrary 
