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30 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
dent will do that in a few days, which we should
be puzzling about for months. As soon as the
festival is over, and we return to Amarapoorah,
we will get him to instruct us. He then inquired,
if I knew the country they called Yizalley, and
whether it belonged to the English? Mr. Mon-
courtuse did not know how to satisfy him on these
points. He then said, " I sent him some of the
coins of the country, and he shewed my rayhoon
a map of it; request of him to send me that chart,
and the book that has a drawing of the air-bal-
loon." Mr. Moncourtuse then retired. As he was
leaving the palace, the king's favourite grandson,
the eldest son of the heir-apparent, a boy about
eleven years of age, sent for him, and told him,
he was very happy to find his majesty so well sa-
tisfied ; requested he would take charge of some
refreshment for me, (two legs of beef, four pieces
of pork, and a jar of ghee) ; to assure me of his
esteem, and that I had only to send to him for
any thing I might want, and if it was to be had
in his grandfather's dominions, he would procure
it for me. Two days before, he had requested to
see a book of natural history, with painted figures,
which I immediately sent to him; when he re-
turned the book, he sent me some provisions,
with a polite message of thanks. The internal evi-
dence arising from this faithful statement of facts
is sufficient, I hope, to justify the line of conduct
dent will do that in a few days, which we should
be puzzling about for months. As soon as the
festival is over, and we return to Amarapoorah,
we will get him to instruct us. He then inquired,
if I knew the country they called Yizalley, and
whether it belonged to the English? Mr. Mon-
courtuse did not know how to satisfy him on these
points. He then said, " I sent him some of the
coins of the country, and he shewed my rayhoon
a map of it; request of him to send me that chart,
and the book that has a drawing of the air-bal-
loon." Mr. Moncourtuse then retired. As he was
leaving the palace, the king's favourite grandson,
the eldest son of the heir-apparent, a boy about
eleven years of age, sent for him, and told him,
he was very happy to find his majesty so well sa-
tisfied ; requested he would take charge of some
refreshment for me, (two legs of beef, four pieces
of pork, and a jar of ghee) ; to assure me of his
esteem, and that I had only to send to him for
any thing I might want, and if it was to be had
in his grandfather's dominions, he would procure
it for me. Two days before, he had requested to
see a book of natural history, with painted figures,
which I immediately sent to him; when he re-
turned the book, he sent me some provisions,
with a polite message of thanks. The internal evi-
dence arising from this faithful statement of facts
is sufficient, I hope, to justify the line of conduct