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Journal of an Embassy From the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava
Journal of an Embassy From the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava Author:John Crawfurd General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: Colburn Subjects: British Paleontology Burma History / Asia / Southeast Asia Nature / Fossils Science / Earth Sciences / Geology Science / Paleontology Travel / Asia / Southeast Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ori... more »ginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A modern Burmese Temple at Sagauig. CHAPTER III. Departure from the mouth of the Rangoon river forMartaban. -- New Settlement. -- Military Cantonment. -- Voyage up the Ataran river in the steam-vessel -- and account of the country on its banks. -- Island of Balu -- Account of a former journey up the Martaban river, and of the formation of the Settlement of Amherst. -- Departure from Martaban, and arrival at Calcutta -- General Reflections respecting our Political Relations with the Burmese. Jan. 24. -- Yesterday evening we passed the mouth of the Rangoon river, and by sunset were clear of its sands and shoals. Through night, favoured by the smooth sea and calm weather whichalmost uniformly prevail upon this coast from November to April, we stood across for the mouth of the Martaban river. Going at a very moderate rate, we entered the new harbour of Amherst at half-past eleven o'clock this forenoon, or exactly in twenty-four hours from our quitting Rangoon: the distance is about one hundred miles. Here we found lying the Government Surveying-ship Investigator, with Captain Ross the Surveyor- general, and the cruizer Ternate. We landed in the evening, and found the place greatly altered from what it had been when established as a British settlement in the beginning of the preceding April. There was then not a house or an inhabitant ; and the houses, or rather huts, now amounted to two hundred and ...« less