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TO CHATEEGAON.
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still to be seen near Dacca, and that they would
further prove it from the Arakan records, and
hinted that his Majesty would claim the resti-
tution of those countries.—JEw-
300. The Woondok again brought for-
ward this claim, but reduced it to the form of
a demand for one half of the revenues of Dacca,
and subsequently lowered his demand to one
tenth. He said it was evident we were dubi-
ous of our right, by Captain Symes having so
strenuously urged the building ofachokee on
the Naaf, to mark that river as the boundary.
—jp. 304. So little change did nearly 30 years
effect in the ideas oi the Burman Court.
The successful termination of hostilities in
Central India, and the death of the King of
Ava in !8!i), and the arrangements consequent
to the succession of the reigning prince, and in
the subjugation of Assam, were causes of the
subsequent silence of the Burman Government.
The insolence of the Burman authorities in
Arakan had not been restricted to the extra-
vagant menaces which have been noticed; re-
peated instances of actual aggression had still
more distinctly marked either their intention
of provoking hostilities, or their indifference as
to their occurrence. The chief objects of these
acts of violence were the elephant hunters in
the Company's employ, whom the Burmese
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still to be seen near Dacca, and that they would
further prove it from the Arakan records, and
hinted that his Majesty would claim the resti-
tution of those countries.—JEw-
300. The Woondok again brought for-
ward this claim, but reduced it to the form of
a demand for one half of the revenues of Dacca,
and subsequently lowered his demand to one
tenth. He said it was evident we were dubi-
ous of our right, by Captain Symes having so
strenuously urged the building ofachokee on
the Naaf, to mark that river as the boundary.
—jp. 304. So little change did nearly 30 years
effect in the ideas oi the Burman Court.
The successful termination of hostilities in
Central India, and the death of the King of
Ava in !8!i), and the arrangements consequent
to the succession of the reigning prince, and in
the subjugation of Assam, were causes of the
subsequent silence of the Burman Government.
The insolence of the Burman authorities in
Arakan had not been restricted to the extra-
vagant menaces which have been noticed; re-
peated instances of actual aggression had still
more distinctly marked either their intention
of provoking hostilities, or their indifference as
to their occurrence. The chief objects of these
acts of violence were the elephant hunters in
the Company's employ, whom the Burmese