: Through India and Burmah with pen and brush by Fisher A Hugh Alfred Hugh - India Description and travel; Burma Description and travel

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THE MOAT, FORT DUFFERIN, MANDALAY ... Frontispiece "THEY COULD NOT LIE DOWN WITHOUT OVERLAPPING" MONGOLIAN TYPE OF MOHAMMEDAN MUTAMA, A HINDOO BABY HINDOO GIRL, SHOWING ELABORATE JEWELLERY ALTAR TABLE AT A BUDDHIST SOCIETY'S CELEBRATION BOY SHOWING TATOOING CUSTOMARY WITH ALL BURMESE MALES IN THE SHAN STATES: GUARD AND POLICEMAN KATHA AT A BURMESE PWE BURMESE ACTORS AT BHAMO A VILLAGE ON THE IRRAWADDY BURMESE MURDERERS PAGAN BURMESE DWARF SUFFERING FROM CATARACT BURMESE PRIEST AND HIS BETEL Box BURMESE MOTHER AND CHILD THE SACRED TANK AND THE ROCK, TRICHINOPOLY THE MAIN BAZAAR, TRICHINOPOLY KARAPANASAMI, THE BLACK GOD HINDOO MOTHER AND CHILD BENGAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, CALCUTTA BENGALEE ACTRESS, MISS TIN CORRY DASS THE YOUNGER "A CHARMING OLD GENTLEMAN FROM DELHI" AVENUE OF OREODOXA PALMS, BOTANICAL GARDENS, CALCUTTA THE KUTAB MINAR AND THE IRON PILLAR, FATEHPUR SIKRI THE FORT OF ALI MASJID, IN THE KHYBER PASS HIS HIGHNESS THE RAJAH OF NABHA THE PALACE OF THE MAHARAJAH OF UDAIPUR THE MOHARAM FESTIVAL AT AGRA

THROUGH INDIA AND BURMAH

RANGOON

Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery.

Terrors were upon them, and in abject wretchedness and hopeless struggle men, women and children spread every strip of their belongings over their bodies and even used for shelter the very mats upon which they had been lying.

What trouble a Hindoo will take to keep his body from the rain! Extremely cleanly and fond of unlimited ablutions he yet detests nothing so much as a wetting from the sky, and now, wholly at the mercy of the elements, do what they would, no human ingenuity availed to keep these wretched people dry.

It was the season of the rice harvest, when South India coolies swarm over to Burmah much as the peasantry of Mayo and Connemara used to crowd to England every summer.

If anybody is really anxious to remember that there are paddy fields in Burmah he should cross the Bay of Bengal in December.

The deck and the lower deck were tanks of live humanity, and when it began to get rough, as it did the morning after we left Madras, catching the end of a strayed cyclone, it was worse than a Chinese puzzle to cross from the saloon to the spar deck, and ten chances to one that even if you did manage to avoid stepping on a body you slipped and shot into seven sick Hindoo ladies and a family of children.

There were six first-class passengers, all Europeans, and 1700 deck passengers, all Asiatics, and the latter paid twelve rupees each for the four days' passage, bringing with them their own food.

The first evening all six of the Europeans appeared at dinner--a Trichinopoly collector, a Madras tanning manager and his wife , a young lieutenant going to take charge of a mountain battery of Punjabis at Maimyo in Upper Burmah, and a young Armenian, son of a merchant at Rangoon, who had been to Europe about his eyes.

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