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Tenasserim—together constituting the long strip of coun- try lying between the Bay of Bengal and the frontiers of Siam—were ceded to the British, and with Arakan be- came the foundation of our Burmese empire.

The same year John Crawfurd was sent to negotiate the commercial treaty which had been provided for in the terms of peace, but the Court of Ava had not yet. learned its lesson, for though his reception compared favourably with those accorded to his predecessors, he met with both impertinence and bad faith. On Decem- ber 31st, 1829, Major Burney was appointed British Resi- dent at Ava, a position which he held with distinction for eight years, only retiring to Rangoon and sailing for England after the usurpation of the crown by the savage and arrogant King Tharawadi had robbed him of all in- fluence. With the appointment of Burney to this post at Ava a new chapter opens in the story of the explora- tion of Burma, but its details will have to be examined by us later on.

Turning next to Siam, we find that intercourse between this country and the Dutch East India Company began as early as 1604, before a decade had elapsed since the sailing of the first vessels from the Texel; and in 1608 a Siamese mission was sent to the Dutch factory at Bantam. It was not, however, until 1634 that a Dutch post was established in Siam, and in 1663 the Company withdrew its agent, averring that its agreement with Siam had been violated by the latter. That Siam saw the removal of the factors with regret is proved by the fact that in the following year an embassy was sent to Batavia, by means