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allowed to be brought into the gaol to us by our servants, 
without paying a bribe at the door. The head-gaoler 
informed us, that we might be released from this state by 
paying among us, to the best of my recollection, between 
two and three thousand ticals. There were nine of us; 
we refused to pay so large a sum, and a smaller one was 
taken. As far as I remember, Messrs. Judson and Price 
paid one hundred ticals each. Mr. Gouger, for himself 
and two persons imprisoned along with him, two hundred 
and fifty ticals. The Prince of Sarawadi promised to pay 
two hundred ticals for me, but did not pay them, for 
I was a second time put in close confinement, after the 
Prince had quitted Ava to take command of the army, and 
told it was on this account. 
Q. Were the prisoners ever prevented from holding 
intercourse with each other?— A. Yes; we were at one 
time put in separate cells, and prohibited from speaking 
to each other. Indeed, we were generally prohibited from 
conversing with each other, and for the three first months 
rigidly so. 
Q. Were you supplied with food and clothes by the 
Government while in prison ?— A. No, with not a particle 
of either; we were even obliged to pay half a tical a 
month for permission to our servants to come in with our 
food, besides other occasional exactions. It is not the 
custom to feed any description of prisoners. The Sepoy 
prisoners of the British army were, contrary to custom, 
ordered to be fed by the King, but the gaolers plundered 
them of the greatest part of what was ordered. 
Q. How long were you imprisoned in Ava ?— A. Some¬ 
what more than eleven months. 
Q. Where were you sent, after being taken out of gaol 
in Ava ?— A. First to Amarapura, where we stayed one 
day, and then to Aong-ben-le, ten or twelve miles from Ava. 
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