Physician and friend : his autobiography and his letters from the Marquis of Dalhousie / edited by George Smith.

  • Grant, Alexander, 1817-1900.
Date:
1902
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    minds of the people and giving tliem the assurance that we are resolved to hold the country, for hitherto they have had vagne fears that we might retire and leave them again to the cruel oppression of the Burmese officials. We were back at Meaday by ten o'clock, and off to Thayetmyo in the evening; here there was another landing and reception by the troops, consisting of the Head-Quarters of the 1st Bengal Fusiliers. The station is very healthy, and promises so well, that it will become a large and prominent one. About the centre of it there is a very pretty group of pagodas with innumer- able Guatamas, many of them shamefully and wan- tonly broken and defaced. In the evening we had an invasion of winged white ants, which, with the fumes of napu, made our dinner not altogether an agreeable one. The napu is a preparation of putrid salted fish, pounded and used as a condiment with rice, much as the natives of India use their curry stuffs. Weighed at dawn and brought up about 10 a.m. at Ka Mat, where there is a party of blue-jackets in charge of gun boats. These Jacks are very happy, and greatly prefer the soldiering to their proper work on boardship. We had a walk up the hill in a burning sun, but were well repaid by the view of the surrounding country, partially cultivated, winding valleys, woods, and distant mountains. In one of the pagodas we saw the reputed facsimile of an impression of the foot of Guatama—a sort of miniature hieroglyphic representa- tion of heaven and earth. Anchored again off Prome at 3 p.m. Irrawady River, near Kan-Gang, 1st January 1854.—At 7 A.M. yesterday our fleet weighed, and pro- ceeded on our downward course. In an hour the Mahanuddy steamei grounded; at 8.30 our steamer did the same, and there we stuck till 5 p.m., when we got off by the aid of the steamer Bentinck, which came to our rescue ; we made only a few miles, and to-day again
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