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IN THE BURMIIAN EMPIRE.
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the mayhoon, to pay him my visit. He received
me in his pahoun, or large family boat: he rose
when I entered the audience-room, and shook
hands with me: we then sat down in chairs close
to each other, on the right-hand side of the room,
my chair being placed to his right. Mr. Burnett,
the rayhoon, and shabunder, were seated on car-
pets fronting us ; the interpreters and two or three
of his own people towards the fore part of the
room; the rest of his people, with my servants,
under awnings on the platform outside. I took
off my shoes before I entered the room. The
viceroy was dressed in a jacket of fine brown
cotton cloth, the manufacture of the country, silk
lungee, and muslin fillet handkerchief round his
head. His reception was frank and friendly,
totally devoid of formality; and Ave conversed and
chatted with the familiarity of old acquaintance.
He introduced two of his children to me, a
sprightly little girl seven or eight years old, and
a little boy of three. About half-an-hour after
I had been seated, the whoonghee, passing by on
his way to join his majesty, seeing me in the
boat, called along-side, and came on board (the
mayhoon had said previously, " Perhaps, the
whoonghee will call if he sees you here," and had
placed a chair for him within a railing in the
centre apartment of the boat, about four or five
yards to our left). The whoonghee entered the
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the mayhoon, to pay him my visit. He received
me in his pahoun, or large family boat: he rose
when I entered the audience-room, and shook
hands with me: we then sat down in chairs close
to each other, on the right-hand side of the room,
my chair being placed to his right. Mr. Burnett,
the rayhoon, and shabunder, were seated on car-
pets fronting us ; the interpreters and two or three
of his own people towards the fore part of the
room; the rest of his people, with my servants,
under awnings on the platform outside. I took
off my shoes before I entered the room. The
viceroy was dressed in a jacket of fine brown
cotton cloth, the manufacture of the country, silk
lungee, and muslin fillet handkerchief round his
head. His reception was frank and friendly,
totally devoid of formality; and Ave conversed and
chatted with the familiarity of old acquaintance.
He introduced two of his children to me, a
sprightly little girl seven or eight years old, and
a little boy of three. About half-an-hour after
I had been seated, the whoonghee, passing by on
his way to join his majesty, seeing me in the
boat, called along-side, and came on board (the
mayhoon had said previously, " Perhaps, the
whoonghee will call if he sees you here," and had
placed a chair for him within a railing in the
centre apartment of the boat, about four or five
yards to our left). The whoonghee entered the