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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4651#0012
IN THE BURMHAN EMPIRE. O
Janima* of fine white cloth, and a Lungeef of
silk, plaid pattern, of the country manufacture;
the texture, apparently, very good, and the
colours, green, red, or hlue, were vivid, and
well fixed; the lohes of their ears also were
perforated, with spiral gold rings in them; they
had each of them their separate attendants, with
red lacquered boxes containing their betel and
cheroots (or segars), and an earthen goblet of
water; the attendants, however, remained on
deck. The crews in the boats were in general
robust men, in gait, manners, and appearance,
similar to their superiors, some small allowance
being made for the hardihood of rusticity; they
were also much darker-skinned, the natural effect
of constant exposure in their laborious vocation.
A Chckoy also came on board much about the
same time, in a common boat: he is in the war
department, and is superior to the other two.
He was a corpulent middle-aged man, rather
shabbily dressed; but it appears he was des-
patched in a hurry to our assistance, in conse-
quence of our having grounded on entering the
river, whereas the others had been waiting for
me two days. The Chekoy had the same ap-
* Jamma is a kind of loose jacket, generally made of muslin,
and tied or buttoned on one side of the breast.
t The lungee goes round the loins, two or three times, and is
then brought between the legs, with one end hanging down in front.
Janima* of fine white cloth, and a Lungeef of
silk, plaid pattern, of the country manufacture;
the texture, apparently, very good, and the
colours, green, red, or hlue, were vivid, and
well fixed; the lohes of their ears also were
perforated, with spiral gold rings in them; they
had each of them their separate attendants, with
red lacquered boxes containing their betel and
cheroots (or segars), and an earthen goblet of
water; the attendants, however, remained on
deck. The crews in the boats were in general
robust men, in gait, manners, and appearance,
similar to their superiors, some small allowance
being made for the hardihood of rusticity; they
were also much darker-skinned, the natural effect
of constant exposure in their laborious vocation.
A Chckoy also came on board much about the
same time, in a common boat: he is in the war
department, and is superior to the other two.
He was a corpulent middle-aged man, rather
shabbily dressed; but it appears he was des-
patched in a hurry to our assistance, in conse-
quence of our having grounded on entering the
river, whereas the others had been waiting for
me two days. The Chekoy had the same ap-
* Jamma is a kind of loose jacket, generally made of muslin,
and tied or buttoned on one side of the breast.
t The lungee goes round the loins, two or three times, and is
then brought between the legs, with one end hanging down in front.