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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Imprisoned in Burmah. Forty years ago, the Burmese empire was an unexplored region, and its port of Rangoon the only town where even the Nation of Shopkeepers could do any business. Two missions from the Bengal government had indeed been sent to the court of Ava, but their experience and representations of native ignorance,the gift--horribile diclum! --popped the nasty morsel into her mouth and completed its mastication. Mr. Gouger concluded from this that the king and queen of Burmah were a very good natured, though rather a vulgar couple; but a naturalized Englishman — whom, to his extreme astonishment, he found at the court, and whose histor the East India Company's service; but having had a difficulty with his ship's mate, and, indeed, having left him for dead after a tremendous beating, had fled to Burmah, where he had remained ever since — that is to say, for forty years. "Do not trust, sir," said he, "to these condescending manners of his majesty. He gives way t