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IN THE BURMHAN EMPIRE.
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same kind of wretched ill-armed rabble that I saw
at Mheghoon. The service they have been em-
ployed in, was cutting down bamboos and fire-
wood, and transporting it to Mheghoon. The hills
on the west side of the river terminate about
sixteen miles above Mheghoon, where com-
mences a high plain, rugged and in general un-
cultivated, or unsusceptible of cultivation. He
saw only one considerable village on his way,
situated on the west bank : the eastern range
of mountains extended beyond the limits of his
journey. The morning after his arrival he was
admitted to an audience of his majesty, whom
he found seated on a common mat on the floor
of his bungalow, with pillows covered Avith green
velvet to lean upon. He was dressed in an
open jamma of white cloth, a common silk
lungee round his loins, his hair gathered into a
knot on the crown of his head in the Burmhan
style, without any handkerchief round his head.
The courtiers and Mr. Burnett were arranged on
the same level, but on the bare bamboos. The
levee commenced before sun-rise, and as the
whoonghee and Mr. Burnett had to cross the
river, it had begun before they arrived. The
conversation had taken a religious turn, in con-
sequence of the examination of some of the heads
of keouns, or priests, Avhich had passed the day
before. It appears they had been found very
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same kind of wretched ill-armed rabble that I saw
at Mheghoon. The service they have been em-
ployed in, was cutting down bamboos and fire-
wood, and transporting it to Mheghoon. The hills
on the west side of the river terminate about
sixteen miles above Mheghoon, where com-
mences a high plain, rugged and in general un-
cultivated, or unsusceptible of cultivation. He
saw only one considerable village on his way,
situated on the west bank : the eastern range
of mountains extended beyond the limits of his
journey. The morning after his arrival he was
admitted to an audience of his majesty, whom
he found seated on a common mat on the floor
of his bungalow, with pillows covered Avith green
velvet to lean upon. He was dressed in an
open jamma of white cloth, a common silk
lungee round his loins, his hair gathered into a
knot on the crown of his head in the Burmhan
style, without any handkerchief round his head.
The courtiers and Mr. Burnett were arranged on
the same level, but on the bare bamboos. The
levee commenced before sun-rise, and as the
whoonghee and Mr. Burnett had to cross the
river, it had begun before they arrived. The
conversation had taken a religious turn, in con-
sequence of the examination of some of the heads
of keouns, or priests, Avhich had passed the day
before. It appears they had been found very