 They were entitled to a 9-gun salute by the British authorities.Formerly the Saopha of Yawnghwe would personally welcome the four Buddha images during the annual festival at Hpaung Daw U Pagoda, an 18-day pagoda festival, during which the Buddha images were placed on a replica of a royal barge designed as a hintha bird and taken in a procession throughout Inle Lake.The elaborately decorated barge was towed by several boats of leg-rowers rowing in unison together with other accompanying boats.