. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. RETURN OF THE BODYGUARD 293 contains two bedrooms about sixteen feet square, anda dining room as large as the two together. Thereare also two bath rooms. It is constructed of teakwith bamboo walls and roof, and stands upon twenty-four large posts, fourteen feet above the is admitted through bamboo sides, which swingout so that everything is open during the day. Therooms contain looking-glasses and curtains, and bed-steads with canvas webbing instead of steel laths orwire
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. RETURN OF THE BODYGUARD 293 contains two bedrooms about sixteen feet square, anda dining room as large as the two together. Thereare also two bath rooms. It is constructed of teakwith bamboo walls and roof, and stands upon twenty-four large posts, fourteen feet above the is admitted through bamboo sides, which swingout so that everything is open during the day. Therooms contain looking-glasses and curtains, and bed-steads with canvas webbing instead of steel laths orwire mattress. The building stands at the edge ofthe village, and about a li from the river, in a compoundsurrounded by a bamboo fence. The distance fromNampoung to Myothit is about fifty li, and fromNampoung to Bhamo is an easy road of about thirty-five miles. In Myothit Dak Bungalow I remained twodays, resting and writing. So poor was Mohammedthat when dying his wife had to borrow oil for thelamp. We could borrow no oil, but purchased somefrom a friendly Celestial. Soon the light went out, anda careful exami
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