Afoot and afloat in Burma . d then as thesun gets higher and higher, and shines onthe golden building on the hilltop, the pa-goda seems like a great golden bell floatingin the clouds. All the way up the river to Rangoonyou would have been looking out for someBurmese people, to see what they look like;but you might get right up to the steamerwharf, and even have been landed there forsome time, before you would have seen asingle Burman, although there might becrowds of people about all the time. Therewould be Indians, and Chinamen, and Eu-ropeans, but perhaps not a Of course, there are
Afoot and afloat in Burma . d then as thesun gets higher and higher, and shines onthe golden building on the hilltop, the pa-goda seems like a great golden bell floatingin the clouds. All the way up the river to Rangoonyou would have been looking out for someBurmese people, to see what they look like;but you might get right up to the steamerwharf, and even have been landed there forsome time, before you would have seen asingle Burman, although there might becrowds of people about all the time. Therewould be Indians, and Chinamen, and Eu-ropeans, but perhaps not a Of course, there are really thousands ofBurmans in Rangoon; but they do not gen-erally like such work as is done by the por-ters on the wharves, or even by the boat-men; and the sturdy coolies from South In-dia have come over by the hundreds of thou-sands to Burma to do the heavy manualwork, while Mohammedans from Chittagongin India seem to do nearly all the riverwork, even running many of the little fer-ries across the rivers for miles In Conclusion 221 Landed in Rangoon, we should find awell-built and clean city; and more and moreit is becoming like the cities of Westernlands, with substantial buildings, electriclights, and street cars, and all those conven-iences we are used to in our own in the western end of the town manyBurmans would be found, some even in bam-boo houses; but because of the danger of firefrom having such flimsy structures in acrowded city, they are gradually becomingless and less. If a fire does break out in agroup of these houses, perhaps hundreds willbe burned before it can be put out; and thenslowly the more substantial brick buildingsw^ill take the place of those the fire hasdestroyed. Rangoon has a number of fine, largeschools, as well as two colleges; so the Bur-mese boys who live in the town can go toschool, as many of them do. Not only dothey learn the regular lessons, but they alsonotice how other people live and dress; grad-ually their own nat
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