A description of the Burmese Empire / compiled chiefly from native documents by the Revnd. Father Sangermano and tr. from his ms. by William Tandy ; with a preface and note by John Jardine.

  • Sangermano, Vincenzo, Padre, 1758-1819.
Date:
1833. Reprinted at the Government Press, Rangoon, 1885
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Credit: A description of the Burmese Empire / compiled chiefly from native documents by the Revnd. Father Sangermano and tr. from his ms. by William Tandy ; with a preface and note by John Jardine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. At the end of the book are two notes, compiled by the Eoman Sub-Committee, to show the progress of Roman Catholic missions in Burma. I add a third compiled from an Italian book lent me by Bishop Bigandet, Griffinks Vita di Monsignor Fercoto, published at Udine in 1781. The reader will time after time remark how some generaliza- tion of Sangermano’s seems as true now as in his day. Burmese medicine, e.g,, has not advanced ; they have themselves no regular surgeons/' But the trade in rice, the great wealth of Burma and principal export of the port of Rangoon at present, is not men- tioned at all in the account of trade. Rangoon : JOHN JARDINE. The 5 th April 1884.