The book A Thousand Miles Up the Irrawaddy : Burmah Proper was written by author Officer, Fl. 1879 Here you can read free online of A Thousand Miles Up the Irrawaddy : Burmah Proper book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Thousand Miles Up the Irrawaddy : Burmah Proper a good or bad book?
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On the •east, separated only by a few miles of densely wooded plain, are the Kukyen mountains, rising one behind the other to a height of over 6000 feet To the south the plain is more open, the 18 A Thousand Miles up the Irrawaddy. tops of hills being just visible in the dim distance, but on. the south-west is a range of mountains through which the river runs by the defile I have already described. To the west is a broad expanse of* river, some two or three miles across, broken in a line with t...he Residency by two low islands. On the farther shore a plain covered with jungle is bounded in the distance by a range of hills of very varying height and irregular outline. As our life at Bamo for the next month was not a very eventful one, I shall cease to keep a daily record, and confine myself to one or two extracts from my diary during that time. September 6th. Our evening walks had hitherto been taken along tracks leading through the jungle, where, in consequence of the wet weather, the walking was anything but good, so on this occasion we went for a change in the direction of the town.
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