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10 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
October 13. To-day Mr. Jhansey and Baba
Sheen sent their compliments, and requested to
know if it would be agreeable to me to receive
a visit from them, to which I replied in the affir-
mative. About ten A.M., they came with a
Serccdoghee, and, after some congratulatory com-
pliments, we talked of business; I explained to
them the nature of my appointment, and the
line of conduct I meant to observe, viz., of
writing to the chief Whoongee*, and keeping
myself recluse until I should receive his majesty's
instructions and permission to assume the public
functions of my office; all which they approved,
and promised to despatch my letter whenever it
was ready. I also informed them generally of
what I had brought, with which they were much
gratified, and tendered, with much apparent frank-
ness, their services and advice on all occasions.
As soon therefore as the translations of my letters
were ready, I sent them to the Rangoon govern-
ment to be forwarded to Amarapoorah.
October 23. For the first time, I to-day rode
into the country, and found it agreeably diversi-
fied, with gentle risings and slopes; and from the
site of an old pagoda, I had a commanding view
of the country for many miles round; the Mar-
taban mountains forming a boundary to the N.E.,
the valleys in general being cleared for paddy-
* Whoongee, a counsellor of State,
October 13. To-day Mr. Jhansey and Baba
Sheen sent their compliments, and requested to
know if it would be agreeable to me to receive
a visit from them, to which I replied in the affir-
mative. About ten A.M., they came with a
Serccdoghee, and, after some congratulatory com-
pliments, we talked of business; I explained to
them the nature of my appointment, and the
line of conduct I meant to observe, viz., of
writing to the chief Whoongee*, and keeping
myself recluse until I should receive his majesty's
instructions and permission to assume the public
functions of my office; all which they approved,
and promised to despatch my letter whenever it
was ready. I also informed them generally of
what I had brought, with which they were much
gratified, and tendered, with much apparent frank-
ness, their services and advice on all occasions.
As soon therefore as the translations of my letters
were ready, I sent them to the Rangoon govern-
ment to be forwarded to Amarapoorah.
October 23. For the first time, I to-day rode
into the country, and found it agreeably diversi-
fied, with gentle risings and slopes; and from the
site of an old pagoda, I had a commanding view
of the country for many miles round; the Mar-
taban mountains forming a boundary to the N.E.,
the valleys in general being cleared for paddy-
* Whoongee, a counsellor of State,