Ten years in Burma

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The author records ten years of experience living and working in Burma, offering travel narrative and missionary reportage that blends personal reminiscence with description. He sketches the country’s geography and urban life, especially Rangoon, profiles ethnic and social groups, examines Buddhism and its institutions, and contrasts local beliefs with Christianity. Chapters detail the Methodist Episcopal mission’s organization, schools and preaching in multiple languages, and practical aspects of missionary labor and colonial administration. Observations range from everyday customs and festivals to benefits of British rule and the challenges facing converts, aiming to make the society and mission conditions intelligible to readers at home.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The first illustration is the cover. The illustration on the Title Page is a photograph of a woman leaning against a cocoanut tree (it is the leftmost part of the illustration on page 45 of this eBook). The four captionless illustrations are identical decorative tailpieces.