| PAGE | |
| SACRED BUILDINGS OF THE BUDDHISTS | Frontispiece |
| A VILLAGE ON THE IRRAWADDY | 11 |
| ENTRANCE TO A BURMESE PAGODA | 13 |
| ONE OF THE GATEWAYS OF THE ROYAL CITY OF MANDALAY | 23 |
| PART OF THE PALACE OF MANDALAY (SOUTH SIDE) | 29 |
| “THE SHANS ARE DISTINGUISHABLE BY THEIR DARK, BAGGY TROUSERS, AND THE VERY LARGE PLIABLE STRAW SUN-HATS THEY WEAR” | 35 |
| DACOITS IN PRISON WITH INDIAN SEPOY GUARD | 45 |
| THE GOLDEN PAGODA AT MANDALAY | 61 |
| BURMESE WOMAN ON HER WAY TO THE WELL TO DRAW WATER | 73 |
| BURMESE CHILDREN | 93 |
| TATTOOING OF THE FACES OF CHIN WOMEN | 105 |
| “IMAGES OF BUDDHA ARE EXTENSIVELY USED” | 109 |
| “IN THE MORNING THE MONKS INVARIABLY GO FORTH, CARRYING THE ALMS-BOWLS, TO COLLECT THEIR DAILY FOOD FROM THE PEOPLE” | 117 |
| BURMESE PEOPLE AT THEIR WORSHIP | 125 |
| GREAT BELL AT THE MENGOHN PAGODA | 133 |
| SPECIMEN OF BURMESE TYPE | 137 |
| A BUDDHIST MONASTERY | 141 |
| “EVERY BURMAN YOUTH, AS HE GROWS UP, IS TATTOOED FROM THE WAIST TO THE KNEES” | 149 |
| BURMESE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER | 153 |
| SPECIMEN OF THE CARVINGS SEEN AT THE MONASTERY BUILDINGS | 159 |
| THE PREACHERS OF THE MISSION | 171 |
| OUR FIRST HOME IN MANDALAY | 189 |
| A DEPOSITORY FOR IMAGES OF BUDDHA | 197 |
| GROUP OF BURMESE LADIES | 201 |
| SCHOOL-CHAPEL AT PAKOKKU | 205 |
| SCHOOL-CHAPEL AT MANDALAY | 209 |
| “THERE ARE NO ZENANAS AMONG THE BURMANS” | 217 |
| GIRLS OF THE CHIN TRIBE | 247 |
| THE HOME FOR LEPERS, MANDALAY | 259 |
About This Book
An English resident recounts four years in Upper Burma, narrating travel to major towns and the transition to British administration while describing military pacification and the influence exerted in the Shan states. He surveys religious life and Buddhist institutions, daily customs, family and village life, and the material resources and mineral wealth of the region. Social issues such as liquor and opium use, the condition of frontier mountain peoples, and missionary work, including schools, hospital care, and a home for lepers, are examined alongside reflections on governance and the challenges of cultural change.