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46 JOURNAL OP A RESIDENCE
have been busy at court to inflame the pride of this
haughty nation, and to induce them to treat me
as the agent of a subordinate or supplicant state,
in the hope of preventing an intercourse which
they imagine may be fatal to their interests.
Aware, however, of the combination that has been
formed against me, and knowing also most of the
despicable conspirators, I firmly trust, if my health
does not fail me, I shall prove more than a match
for them; at least I am prepared for the worst,
which, if it does not secure victory, may alleviate
defeat.
January 19. We came to-day to the conflux
of the river Kheoundoun, with the Erawuddie
At the conflux the former appears the largest
river, but the point of land being only an island,
some part of the waters of the Erawuddie are
discharged by that channel also. The Kheoun-
doun is however, I am informed, a considerable
river, and flows from Cossay through a very fertile
country. The country on both banks is populous
and well cultivated, and a great deal of cotton, I
understand, is imported from hence up the Era-
wuddie to China. From the conflux of the two
rivers, the Erawuddie has the appearance of a
beautiful canal, the island to the westward, as
well as the eastern bank being well inhabited.
One of their chief rahans or priests having lately
died, a great many well-dressed people of both
have been busy at court to inflame the pride of this
haughty nation, and to induce them to treat me
as the agent of a subordinate or supplicant state,
in the hope of preventing an intercourse which
they imagine may be fatal to their interests.
Aware, however, of the combination that has been
formed against me, and knowing also most of the
despicable conspirators, I firmly trust, if my health
does not fail me, I shall prove more than a match
for them; at least I am prepared for the worst,
which, if it does not secure victory, may alleviate
defeat.
January 19. We came to-day to the conflux
of the river Kheoundoun, with the Erawuddie
At the conflux the former appears the largest
river, but the point of land being only an island,
some part of the waters of the Erawuddie are
discharged by that channel also. The Kheoun-
doun is however, I am informed, a considerable
river, and flows from Cossay through a very fertile
country. The country on both banks is populous
and well cultivated, and a great deal of cotton, I
understand, is imported from hence up the Era-
wuddie to China. From the conflux of the two
rivers, the Erawuddie has the appearance of a
beautiful canal, the island to the westward, as
well as the eastern bank being well inhabited.
One of their chief rahans or priests having lately
died, a great many well-dressed people of both