Cox s Burmhan Empire . 
£89 
rnily, particularly the Enga, are dab¬ 
blers : they have a high opinion of the 
medicinal virtues of the exploded 
elixirs, and conserves of precious stones 
and metals; I gave him some specimens 
of metallic salts, &c. and endeavoured, 
but in vain, to dissuade him from such 
illusive pursuits. 
PROCESSION OF THE SULTAN. 
June 8. At one o’clock at night the 
pacaam whoongee passed by, on his 
way to the water-side, and sent word 
to inform me that his majesty would 
arrive early in the morning. At six 
A. M. I received advice that his majesty 
had arrived at the upper landing-place, 
about two miles to the northward, there 
not being water enough for his boat at 
the lower one. About nine A. M. the 
Enga Tekaing passed by, on his way 
to meet his father; at ten the gun 
hied as a signal for his majesty's land¬ 
ing. About half-past ten the head of 
the procession began to pass by : first, 
a string of his majesty’s elephants; 
next a body of foot-soldiers, each with 
a rusty musket on his shoulder, clothed 
like the common people of the country ; 
they marched, or rather walked, in 
two Indian files, without any regu¬ 
larity ; next followed the king's grand¬ 
son, on a very lofty elephant; lie sat on 
the neck of the elephant, and held the 
guiding-hook himself, but in fact the 
animal required no guiding. A well- 
dressed mohaut sat behind him, and 
supported him in his arms. The young 
prince was naked from his waist up¬ 
wards, having on only a silk lungee, 
and an embroidered handkerchief on 
his head, gold bangles on his ancles and 
wrists, and several chains set with 
stones, &c. on his neck. After him 
came several gilt palkees, with women 
of the palace, &c.; at a distance be¬ 
hind him followed a son of the king’s 
by a favourite concubine, on a small 
elephant, which he guided himself; 
after him followed five of the king’s 
elephants, with war-howclahs, having 
large shields on each side of the liow- 
dah, painted red and gilt; then fol¬ 
lowed his majesty’s troopers in their 
war-diess, but very shabby, and on 
wretched, half-starved, small horses, 
of these there might be sixty or eighty; 
then several gilt brass three-pounders, 
on field-carriages, drawn by men, with 
several red painted and gilt ammuni¬ 
tion carts, drawn by two horses each ; 
on each side after these marched foot 
soldiers, armed and clothed as those 
before mentioned; then followed the 
carriage I brought, drawn by men; 
and immediately after it his majesty 
with the first queen, in his old car¬ 
riage, drawn by four led horses, the 
blinds down. He laughed, and spoke 
out loudly while passing, seeming well 
pleased with my attention. I was 
seated in a chair at the door of the hall,- 
and when he came in front I rose up, 
took off my hat, bowing and placing 
my hand on my breast; Mr. Burnett 
and Mr. Rowland standing on either 
side, and bowing at the same time. 
The rest of my suite were arranged on 
each hand of the verandah. Before 
the front of my house I had made a 
railing of bamboo lattice-work, covered 
on the outside with yellow cloth, and 
over it gold and silver tange was 
spread ; immediately in front of the 
verandah was a portico forty-eight feet 
long, covered on the top with scarlet 
cloth, hanging down towards the front 
about three feet, with gold tange along 
the front, dropping about two feet be¬ 
low the red cloth. The bamboo pillars, 
&c. covered with yellow silk, and a 
screen of yellow silk curtains along the 
front of the verandah, so as entirely to 
cover the piers, leaving the doors open. 
The house was also newly white-washed,, 
and the road levelled and sanded before 
the door; and just before his majesty 
passed I had the road strewed with 
gold-leaf; the crowd were kept clear 
of the front by a Burmhan peon ; and 
on the whole, for this place, we made 
a very fine show. The intent, however, 
was every thing, and it being wholly 
unexpected. He was highly gratified, 
saying aloud to his courtiers, 44 Ah, 
this is the company, that is my Resi¬ 
dent,” and kept his eyes on me the 
whole time he was passing. On each 
side his majesty’s carriage marched 
spearmen, and it was surrounded by a 
crowd of his courtiers, &c. &c.; imme¬ 
diately after it followed foot soldiers, 
troopers, and war-elephants, but the 
whole too irregular and insignificant to 
make any impression on me. After 
his majesty, came the Enga Tekaing on 
liorse-back, preceded and followed by 
foot soldiers and spearmen, and sur¬ 
rounded by his particular servants. He 
looked towards me till he came imme¬ 
diately opposite, and then he affected 
to turn his head another way; I rose 
and bowed to him as he passed. After 
him came a number of gilt palkees, 
with the queens and concubines, eacli 
with their paiticular female servants; 
young princes carried on men’s shoul- 
