Note: Dalrymple provides some information on Captain George Baker in his introduction to the Oriental Repertory: Captain George Baker?s Observations at Persaim in 1755, his Journal of an Embassy, to the King of the B?raghmahns, his Character of that King, and the Short Account of the Country are from MSS, which that valuable friend gave to me during the course of our voyage in the Cuddalore [in] 1759: His modest diffidence makes him apprehensive of appearing as an author; but, I doubt not, the publick approbation will shew his apprehensions were groundless. All of the accounts mentioned by Dalrymple have been republished in the SBBR (see volume 3.2 and the present issue). In the collection of notes included below, ?The Palace at Pegu? has been extracted from Dalrymple?s introduction. As he explains of the origin of the note, ?I find amongst my memos of information, received from Captain Baker, the following account of Pegu, which could not properly be introduced in any other place, and therefore I have inserted it here.? The sections on (1) the Burmans and Mons and (2) the Karens, below, were extracts inserted into the initial anonymous letter included in the Oriental Repertory collection by Dalrymple, indicating with a ?B? that Baker was the source of the quotations. Dalrymple, in his introduction to Oriental Repertory, also makes the following observation based on Baker?s accounts which may usefully be included here: It has appeared, in Captain Baker?s Observations, that the B?raghmah King had risen from his abilities; Simento, King of Pegu, was at first a Goldsmith; so that both competitors were self-raised. M. W. C.