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252 JOURNAL OP A RESIDENCE
drank his health in a glass of claret: the chohwa
and his companion dined with me. I was under
the necessity of giving them a slight lecture on
politeness heforc dinner, which had a good effect.
One of the coach-makers' peons absconded, the
other has but just recovered from the small-pox;
otherways, notwithstanding my kindness to him,
it is probable he would have gone also, for the
lower class of the natives of India are in ge-
neral head-strong in their folly, and little attached
by gratitude. They want to return to Calcutta
by the way of Chittagong, and are too im-
patient to wait until I can obtain a regular per-
mission for them. ■
June 5. Having determined to ornament the
front of my house in honour of his majesty's
entrance, I have had people employed in pre-
paring the scaffolding, Sfc, accordingly. The
pacaam whoonghcc and other officers attend all
day at the river-side, to superintend and expedite
the temporary palaces, #c, erecting there for his
majesty and the royal family. In the evening, as
Mr. Burnett was riding by the river-side, one of
the cooleys struck his horse a smart blow with
a rattan; I suppose it to have been a piece of
wanton impertinence, proceeding from ignorance,
rather than deliberate malice ; however, to avoid
any insult of the kind again, I have desired
him to restrain his excursions until such time
drank his health in a glass of claret: the chohwa
and his companion dined with me. I was under
the necessity of giving them a slight lecture on
politeness heforc dinner, which had a good effect.
One of the coach-makers' peons absconded, the
other has but just recovered from the small-pox;
otherways, notwithstanding my kindness to him,
it is probable he would have gone also, for the
lower class of the natives of India are in ge-
neral head-strong in their folly, and little attached
by gratitude. They want to return to Calcutta
by the way of Chittagong, and are too im-
patient to wait until I can obtain a regular per-
mission for them. ■
June 5. Having determined to ornament the
front of my house in honour of his majesty's
entrance, I have had people employed in pre-
paring the scaffolding, Sfc, accordingly. The
pacaam whoonghcc and other officers attend all
day at the river-side, to superintend and expedite
the temporary palaces, #c, erecting there for his
majesty and the royal family. In the evening, as
Mr. Burnett was riding by the river-side, one of
the cooleys struck his horse a smart blow with
a rattan; I suppose it to have been a piece of
wanton impertinence, proceeding from ignorance,
rather than deliberate malice ; however, to avoid
any insult of the kind again, I have desired
him to restrain his excursions until such time