Account Of An Embassy To The Kingdom Of Avain The Year 1795

About the Book: - The description of the embassy of the author to the kingdom of Ava in Burma. The author was appointed plenipotentiary by the Governor General and authorize to deal with the government on behalf of the British India government. He was also asked to take cognizance of the conduct of the British Nationals trading or residing in these areas. He embarked from Calcutta on the 21st of Feb,1795 and completed his voyage on the 26th of Nov 1796. He has recorded, in this book, all that he saw and experienced. The book is a mine of imformation on Burma and its people. He describes the people, the religion, their custom, their family life, the crops they grow, the methods of cultivation, the king and his court, the politics and external relations etc. About the Author: - Michael symes was the fifth son of Richard Symes of Ballyarthur, and Eleanor Cliffe of Ross, County Wexford, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Symes entered the East India Company Army in 1780, as a cadet in the Bengal Army. On furlough in 1786 as a lieutenant, he re-enlisted in 1787, he went to India again in the following year, with the newly raised 76th Regiment of Foot. He served as aide-de-camp to Sir Thomas Musgrave, 7th Baronet at Madras in 1791, became captain in 1793, and lieutenant-colonel in 1800. In 1795 Symes was sent by Sir John Shore, the Governor-General of India on a mission to Burma, he obtained from King Bodawpaya then known to the British as King or Emperor of Ava, a royal order permitting a British agent to reside at Rangoon to protect the interests of British subjects. On a second mission to Ava. On this occasion it was to protest against the demand made by the Burmese governor of Arakan for the surrender of fugitives, who had sought refuge in the British district of Chittagong. In the capital, he obtained a verbal assurance that the demand should be withdrawn. On the journey back to Calcutta, where he arrived in February 1803, he was affronted by the Burmese go