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APPENDIX. 
Q. Were you maltreated when conveyed from Ava to 
Aong-ben-le?— A. Yes; we were stripped of all our 
clothes, except a pair of trowsers and a shirt; a rope was 
tied round our waists, and we were bound two and two. 
A keeper, who had a rope two or three fathoms long 
fixed to each prisoner, drove us along; and in this manner, 
in the heat of the sun, and in the month of May, we 
travelled, barefooted and bareheaded, to Amarapura. At 
this place, our feet being blistered and cut, and being no 
longer able to travel, we were put in irons, and sent in carts 
to Aong-ben-le. 
Q. Did any of the prisoners suffer from this treatment ? 
— A, Yes; a Greek of the name of Constantine was killed 
by it. An officer of rank, to whose charge we were 
delivered, accompanied us from Ava, and perceiving that 
the Greek could not travel, ordered a horse for him. After 
the governor was out of the way, the horse was taken away. 
He could not go on, and was dragged for some way along 
the ground; a cart was then pressed, and he was put into it. 
He arrived close to the old palace at four in the afternoon, 
insensible, and expired about sunset. 
Q. Did you see Constantine the Greek dragged along 
the ground?— A, Yes ; I did. 
Q. How did he come to suffer more than the rest ?— 
A. He was an old man, and the sinews of his legs were 
contracted. 
Q. What do you suppose was the reason for your being 
taken from Ava to Aong-ben-le?— A. The Pakan-wun, 
appointed to the command of the army after the death of 
Bandula, had been for a few days our fellow-prisoner at 
Ava, and used to promise Mr. Rodgers, if released, to do 
something for our comfort. Aong-ben-le was his place 
of birth, and we therefore, at first, imagined we were sent 
