TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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ported from Bengal; yellow by turmeric, and by 
the wood of the jack-tree, (Artocarpus integri- 
Jblia.) The common mordant is alum, which is 
imported from China. Burman colours are ge¬ 
nerally very fugitive, especially with cottons. 
The patterns are all stripes and checks, a decided 
mark of rudeness. Printing is unknown to them. 
The common coarse unglazed earthenware of 
the Burmans is the best of the kind which I 
have seen in India, and is very cheap. It is 
used for cooking utensils, and for keeping grain, 
oil, salt, pickled-fish, and similar commodities. A 
better description of pottery, strong and glazed, 
has been manufactured at Martaban, Pugan, 
Sengko, Senkaing, Monchabo, and Tharet. Some 
articles of this description, which have been long- 
well known in other parts of India under the 
name of “ Pegue jars,” are so large as to contain 
two hundred viss of oil, or about one hundred 
and eighty-two gallons. A few of them are even 
of such magnitude, that it has been alleged, that 
the children of Europeans, born in the country, 
have been smuggled away in them, in former 
times, to elude the Burman law. The Burmans 
are unacquainted with the art of making any 
kind of porcelain, however coarse. What they 
use is Chinese, imported by junks into Rangoon 
from the European settlements in the Straits of 
Malacca, this being too bulky an article to be im¬ 
ported by land-carriage direct from China. 
