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274 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
the third quarter of the moon, the whoonghee's
writer did not attend during the day, but called
on me in the evening, and promised to get the
fair copy finished to-morrow. The inhabitants of
the king's street, where I live, have been or-
dered to decorate the front of their houses, and
fill their shops with goods, preparatory to the
entrance of the Assamese princess. I had a visit
this morning from the woondock, Moinqhio-
qhine's wife. In the evening the pacaam whoon-
ghee set off by water, to escort the Assamese
princess to court; the third whoonghec has been
some time absent on a journey to Tongher, to
escort to court, a sacred white elephant, lately
caught. The mhee whoonghec remains to con-
duct the business of the empire; this marks his
consequence, and the confidence reposed in him
by his sovereign ; he, in fact, is nearly as abso-
lute as his master, often passing capital sentences
without reference.
June 18. I was obliged to send this day to
spur the whoonghce's head writer, to hasten the
fair copy of the memorials; nothing can be done
but by feeing from the top to the bottom of the
list. A small squadron of merchant boats arrived
from Rangoon ; by them, I had a confirmation of
the news of my surgeon's having arrived, but
they could not tell me when he would set off
to join me. They left Rangoon the 23d of
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the third quarter of the moon, the whoonghee's
writer did not attend during the day, but called
on me in the evening, and promised to get the
fair copy finished to-morrow. The inhabitants of
the king's street, where I live, have been or-
dered to decorate the front of their houses, and
fill their shops with goods, preparatory to the
entrance of the Assamese princess. I had a visit
this morning from the woondock, Moinqhio-
qhine's wife. In the evening the pacaam whoon-
ghee set off by water, to escort the Assamese
princess to court; the third whoonghec has been
some time absent on a journey to Tongher, to
escort to court, a sacred white elephant, lately
caught. The mhee whoonghec remains to con-
duct the business of the empire; this marks his
consequence, and the confidence reposed in him
by his sovereign ; he, in fact, is nearly as abso-
lute as his master, often passing capital sentences
without reference.
June 18. I was obliged to send this day to
spur the whoonghce's head writer, to hasten the
fair copy of the memorials; nothing can be done
but by feeing from the top to the bottom of the
list. A small squadron of merchant boats arrived
from Rangoon ; by them, I had a confirmation of
the news of my surgeon's having arrived, but
they could not tell me when he would set off
to join me. They left Rangoon the 23d of
\