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4< JOURNAL OP A RESIDENCE
paratus as the others for his betel, cheroots, Sec,
with the addition of a silver pheekdawn*. After
chatting nearly an hour in the cabin, during
which they chewed betel, smoked cheroots, and
drank water, we adjourned to the deck; and in
half an hour more they desired leave to retire to
their boats and putoff. Their questions were trivial,
and their observations mostly complimentary;
but they asked in particular after Captain Symes,
and the gentlemen of the late embassy.
October 10. The land is in general low from
the river's mouth to Rangoon, and is overflowed,
I understand, in most places during the spring ;
there are several cleared spots on cither bank,
where paddy is grown, but mostly on the eastern
shore, and three or four straggling villages, the
houses of which are built of bamboos and cadjan f,
and raised on piles, in the manner of the Malays.
At two of the villages chokeys J are established,
called the king's and queen's chokeys; where duties
are collected on imports, to what amount I am yet to
learn. Before a vessel is quite land-locked, Dagon
Pagoda, with its gilt spire and talapoin (or um-
* Pheekdawn, a vase made of brass or silver, for spitting
into.
t Cadjan is the leaf of the palm-tree, and is found very
useful for thatching houses with.
J Chokeys, a general term applied to police or revenue
stations.
paratus as the others for his betel, cheroots, Sec,
with the addition of a silver pheekdawn*. After
chatting nearly an hour in the cabin, during
which they chewed betel, smoked cheroots, and
drank water, we adjourned to the deck; and in
half an hour more they desired leave to retire to
their boats and putoff. Their questions were trivial,
and their observations mostly complimentary;
but they asked in particular after Captain Symes,
and the gentlemen of the late embassy.
October 10. The land is in general low from
the river's mouth to Rangoon, and is overflowed,
I understand, in most places during the spring ;
there are several cleared spots on cither bank,
where paddy is grown, but mostly on the eastern
shore, and three or four straggling villages, the
houses of which are built of bamboos and cadjan f,
and raised on piles, in the manner of the Malays.
At two of the villages chokeys J are established,
called the king's and queen's chokeys; where duties
are collected on imports, to what amount I am yet to
learn. Before a vessel is quite land-locked, Dagon
Pagoda, with its gilt spire and talapoin (or um-
* Pheekdawn, a vase made of brass or silver, for spitting
into.
t Cadjan is the leaf of the palm-tree, and is found very
useful for thatching houses with.
J Chokeys, a general term applied to police or revenue
stations.