Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect

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C. T. Paske. Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect

Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect

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MYAMMA: A RETROSPECT OF LIFE AND TRAVEL IN LOWER BURMAH

CHAPTER I. THE VOYAGE

CHAPTER II. STILL UNDER CANVAS

CHAPTER III. THE CITY OF PALACES

CHAPTER IV. ON THE MOVE ONCE MORE

CHAPTER V. FIRST IMPRESSIONS

CHAPTER VI. THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA

CHAPTER VII. RIVER-LIFE UNDER DIFFICULTIES

CHAPTER VIII. UNDER ORDERS

CHAPTER IX. PROME

CHAPTER X. A SECRET EXPEDITION

CHAPTER XI. FURTHER DETAILS

CHAPTER XII “EL DORADO.”

CHAPTER XIII. CLOUDY WEATHER

CHAPTER XIV “LEAVE OF ABSENCE.”

CHAPTER XV. MOULMEIN

CHAPTER XVI. AMHERST

CHAPTER XVII. TAVOY

CHAPTER XVIII. THE MERGUI ARCHIPELAGO

CHAPTER XIX. MERGUI

CHAPTER XX. AND LAST

INDEX

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C. T. Paske

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Among the least pleasant experiences of the whole voyage was the ordeal of being becalmed near the line, where an oily sea sent back the glare of perpendicular rays: several days of this sort of thing proved too much for the tempers of the passengers, without evoking very choice selections from the copious vocabulary of the crew.

The cuddy table was patronized in stately silence, and at any time, indeed, conversation became as spasmodic and laconic as the merest courtesy would allow. We of the civilized persuasion have somehow drifted into the notion that it is imperative on us to talk at all times and seasons, so that few tongues ever rest from morning to night, when the timely interference of Providence paralyzes for a time our power of speech.

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