From Edinburgh to India Burmah | Page 2

the Siege, mosquitoes, and landscape -- Back to Mysore, and Dinner on the Track. 174-185
CHAP. XIX
Channapatna Village, and a free tip to artists -- Our Camp in a railway siding in "beechen green, and shadows numberless" -- Thoughts of Madras and the Ocean again -- How we rule India, and ghosts on the railway track -- A Bank in India, and about cooking, and the Indian squirrel or Chip-monk -- The Maharajah -- Red Chupprassies -- The Museum, and Ants, etc., etc. 186-196
CHAP. XX
En route for Madras -- A plague inspection in the grey of the morning -- Madras and blue southern ocean, through Tamarisks, and the silvery Cooum and fishermen seine-netting on the strand -- The Race-course -- The Old Fort of the Company -- Dinner at the Fort, and the people we saw there; and of those we remembered who once lived there -- A Digression from Crows to ancient Naval Architecture, and the new Order of Precedence. 197-209
CHAP. XXI
A delightful Fishing Day -- Surf Rafts. -- Making Calls -- Boating on the Adyar River -- A Sunday in Madras Churches, and on a Surf Raft -- End of the Year. 210-220
CHAP. XXII
1st JAN. 1906. -- Call at Government House -- The Fort again -- More about Surf Rafts -- Lord Ampthill's Government House Reception -- Nabobs and nobodies. -- Fireworks and pretty dresses, and the band playing. 221-226
CHAP. XXIII
Out of Madras, and on the blue sea again, bound West to Burmah -- Packed with Natives -- An unsavoury Passage Ruskin's English and Native Essayists. 227-231
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GOLDEN BURMAH, and the Golden Pagoda -- a gymkhana dance -- Sketching at the Pagoda entrance -- Various races -- Bachelor's quarters -- The Shan Camp -- Princesses and Chieftains, and their followings -- Mr Bertram Carey, C.I.E. -- The peace of the platform of The Shwey Dagon Pagoda. 232-244
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"The Blairin' trumpet sounded far," and the Prince comes over the sea, and lands at Rangoon -- Receptions and processions; pandols, shamianas; and Royal Tomasha -- Illuminations at night on the Lake, and the Royal Barges -- Song about Our King Emperor -- We start for Mandalay by river-boat up the IRRAWADDY. 245-250
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The Flotilla Co. -- Bassein-Creek mosquitoes -- Searchlight fantasies fairy-like scenes on the river by night and day -- Up stream on a perfect yacht -- Past perfectly lovely villages and scenes -- The Nile nowhere -- Mr Fielding Hall -- Riverside delights -- Prome -- Pagodas -- The Prince comes down the river. 251-263
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THAYET MYO, 20th Jany. -- It gets cooler -- Thoughts of big game -- Watteau trees -- Sweet pea dresses -- Country scenes -- Popa Mountain -- The Fanes of Pagan -- A little about shooting and geese -- and the pleasures of the river life to end of chapter. 264-275
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The shore at Mandalay -- The Queen's (Supayalat) golden Kioung or Monastery -- Street scenes -- THE ARRAKAN PAGODA, and scenes for a Rubens or Rembrandt -- The Mecca of this Eastern Asia -- Burmese women bathing -- A Burmese harper -- The Phryne in hunting green kirtle -- Mingun and the pagoda that was to have been the biggest in the world, and the 90-ton bell -- Mr Graham's house -- Life on S.S. "Mandalay" at the Mandalay shore -- King Thebaw's Palace. 276-293
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Away to Bhamo!
Off again -- In a cargo steamer up river to the end of the Empire this way -- The markets on board and Burmese life -- Changing views, flowers, sunlight and swirling river -- Fishing -- Geese -- Painting -- Cascades of beautiful people, Snipe-shooting, and more fishing. 294-302
CHAP. XXX
Anchor up -- Mist on the river -- "Stop her" -- Pagodas and cane villages -- Fishing with fly; A 35-lber -- The Elephant Kedar Camp -- Animal life on the river banks -- We go aground -- The crew strike work -- We get away again -- Kalone to Katha. 303-313
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Sunshine and haar -- Children of Cleutha -- Moda -- Girls and old ladies of Upper Burmah -- We meet a Punitive Expedition, Sikhs and Ghurkas under a Gunner-Officer returning from Chin hills to Bhamo -- Fog banks and the second Defiles -- Jungle scenery -- Shans and Kachins at Sinkan -- We go shopping on an elephant at BHAMO -- China Street -- A Chinese gentleman's house -- The Joss House -- Painting in a Chinese crowd -- Marooned. 314-327
CHAP. XXXII
The D.-C. Bungalow -- Roses, orchids, and "The Mystery." 328-330
CHAP. XXXIII
Many pages, lengthy, descriptive, of an expedition in canoes, and on elephant back through pucca jungle to shoot snipe, and of our entertainment in the evening at the Military Police Fort, with Kachin dances in moonlight -- A Review of Kachin native police. 331-342
CHAP. XXXIV
Preparations for our pilgrimage into China -- Our servants, ponies,