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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal November 1836

1836

There was no dancing as on my former visit but a male and two female singers seated immediately within the door nf the private apaJtmcut sung a sort of metrical history of the exploits of the Tt40130A and his six brothers in which the successful insurrection of KAWKICLA the eldest brother against the Burmese sixty years ago and the carrying off the people from Kesul-then. [...] The white umbrella was not unfurled ; the floor in front of the yozabollen or throne was covered by the carpets and triangular pillows of the chiefs who assume a much more manly position than in the presence of some of the lowest chiefs of Bankok though I am told that next to the Ettija of Ligore this is the highest Chief in the kingdom. [...] I brought to his notice the complaints of the liengalee cattle-dealers of the refusal of the court-officers to interfere in their complaints agaitist each other and called his attention to the 10th paragraph of Colonel Butts:vies treaty of Bankok in 1826 on the subject. [...] The town is situated four or five miles from the eastern foot of the Rya-tha-Dykws hill the highest in the range and between it and the hill is another small.single-tvulled fort about the size of Labwney called Matiray-Soodank"3 (city of the flower ►ortten.) All the houses in immay above the pooest of the people are surrounded by compounds fenced in in which are cocoanut erica betel b [...] The road to-day has been the worst we have travelled ; the hills very trying to the elephants and the stony banks of the streams to the horses' feet.
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Pages
89
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
I.—Notice of the Vallabhí Dynasty of Saurashtra; Extracted from the Buddhist Records of the Chinese. By M. Eugene Jacquet Member of the as. Soc. of Paris
685-688 James Prinsep view
II.—An Account of Some of the Petty States Lying North of the Tenas-Serim Provinces; Drawn up from the Journals and Reports of D. Richardson Esq. Surgeon to the Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces. By E.A. Blundell Esq. Commissioner
688-707 James Prinsep view
III.—Notes on the Antiquities of Bámíán. By C. Masson
707-720 James Prinsep view
IV.—New Types of Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins Engraved as Plate XLIX. By James Prinsep Sec. &C
720-724 James Prinsep view
V.—Facsimiles of Various Ancient Inscriptions Lithographed. By Jamses Prinsep Sec. &C
724-731 James Prinsep view
VI.—Some Remarks on the Development of Pollen. By William Grip-Fith Assistant Surgeon Madras Establishment
732-739 James Prinsep view
VII.—Sub-Himálayan Fossil Remains of the Dadupur Collection. By Licuts. W.E. Baker and H.M. Durand Engineers
739-741 James Prinsep view
VIII.—Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Land and Fresh-Water Shells Chiefly Contained in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. By W.H. Benson Esq. B.C.S.
741-750 James Prinsep view
IX.—Note on Zoological Nomenclature. By B.H. Hodgson Esq.
751-752 James Prinsep view
X.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
753-759 James Prinsep view
XI.—Meteorological Register
760-i James Prinsep view

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