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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    waves rise to the height of sixty or seventy jnzena. Terrible whirl- pools are here to be met, capable of swallowing up large ships. These seas abound with monstrous fishes of the length of 500 and even 1,000 juzena. When these merely move in the waters they agitate them to a considerable degree, but when they shake their whole body they excite a horrible tempest to the distance of even 500 and 800 juzena. Hence it follows that there can be no com- munication whatever between the inhabitants of the different great islands; and the European ships that arrive in the Indies are supposed by the Burmese to come from some of the 500 small islets which surround the great southern island of Zabudiba. Hence they generally style them inhabitants of the small islands.