[260] Macfarlane, l.c.
[261] In 1802 Symes again visited Burmah for a diplomatic purpose; but his letters, while they modify his book, add little of value to our knowledge of the country.
[262] This is, however, very problematical. Mr. Macfarlane cannot have forgotten the whole previous history of European intercourse with the country, and how many distinctions and quibblings were brought forward at different times upon that plea.
[263] Travels, vol. i. p. 159.
[264] See Sangermano, p. 113.
[265] Wilson’s Narrative of the Burmese War, p. 1 of the reprint of 1852.
[266] Wilson, p. 25.
[267] Wilson, p. 29 sq.
[268] Macfarlane’s British India, pp. 450-452.
[269] Burmese War, p. 52, ed. 1852.