Burma as it Was, as it Is, and as it Will beG. Redway, 1886 - 184페이지 |
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3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Akyab Alompra annexed Arakan Assam bamboo bank Berkeley Bhamô Brahmas British Burma Buddha Buddhist buildings CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called capital Captain China Chinaman Chinese Chittagong COVENT GARDEN custom cutch duties east eastern elephants English envoys European four French frontier GEORGE REDWAY Golden Palace Government hand hill-tribes hills Hloht-daw houses hundred India Indo-Chinese inhabitants Irrawaddy island jungle Kachyens King Theebaw king's land Lord Lower Burma lower provinces Mandalay matter ment miles Ministers monasteries monks Moung Mount Meru Myin-gyan Nats that guard officers Pagán pagoda Pegu Peguans pious plain population race Rangoon rank religion religious revenue rice river round royal sacred sayays second Burmese War sent Shan Shway steamers subjects Syriam Talaing Tenasserim Thackeray Thayetmyo thousand timber tion Tong-King Total trade Toung-oo town treaty trees troops UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Upper Burma village women Woon Woon-dauks Woon-gyees YORK STREET
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8 페이지 - Tobacco Talk and Smokers' Gossip. An Amusing Miscellany of Fact and Anecdote relating to " The Great Plant" in all its Forms and Uses, including a Selection from Nicotian Literature.
116 페이지 - Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood, Which runneth of one hue, nor caste in tears, Which trickle salt with all ; neither comes man To birth with tilka-mark12 stamped on the brow, Nor sacred thread on neck.
21 페이지 - His excellency the general of the lord who rules over a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs in the great western kingdom, the sun-descended King of Ava, and master of the golden palace, having appointed [here follow the names and titles of the fourteen Burmese officers], and the generals of the master of the golden palace of China, who rules over a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs in the great eastern kingdom...
86 페이지 - They petitioned the King, who, in his clemency and generosity, sent them large sums of money to pay their expenses...
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119 페이지 - PATTA, the begging-bowl, round his neck, till the end, when his body is embalmed and burned on a funeral pyre erected at the public expense, he meets with the utmost veneration. The people make way for him when he walks abroad. The oldest layman assumes the title of disciple to the last inducted KOYIN and with clasped hands addresses him as HPAYAH, the highest title the language can afford. The monk's commonest actions — walking, sleeping, eating — are referred to in language different from that...
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