ABSTRACT
THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE DOMESTIC AND W ILD ANIMALS OF TARNASSARI.
In this country of Tamassari there are oxen, cows, sheep, and goats in great quantities,2 wild hogs, stags, roebucks, wolves, cats which produce the civet, lions, peacocks in great multitudes, falcons, goss-hawks, white parrots, and also
o f India.” ( T h o r n t o n ’ s Gazetteer.) I find no mention of silk as a natu ral production of the country; but Yule calls it “ the staple o f the import trade” into Burmah, “ and is said to come from a city called Tsa-choi-iSing, eighty-three days’ journey from Bam6, and fifty days beyond the city of Yunan.” He estimates the value o f silk imported in 1854 at .£120,000, and states that the weaving of the raw material gives employment to a large body of the population.” (Narrative of a Mission to the Court of Ava, pp. 149-53.) Yarthema probably alludes to this manufacture, for he does not say that the country produces silk, but merely “ se fa quivi seta in grandissima quantity.”
