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Disappointment increases as to the square of the number of the tourists who take the trip. We set out under the direction of C. W. Sever- ance to take a census of the Buddhas in Rangoon. The first temple yielded 168, and with cheerful confidence in our ability to reach one thousand, we next tackled the Shwe Dagon, upheaving itself in the sun, girt with a scaffolding of bamboo poles, so that the Burmese may acquire merit by regilding its wonderful dome, neither Moslem nor Hindoo in type. When ou...r total in that temple had reached 1, 500, with many nooks and chapels still to be enumerated, we quit. We rely for success upon patience and persistence, but for once they failed us. Including those awaiting purchase in the 142 HALF WAY art stores, we should estim'ate that at least four thousand images of Buddha are to be found in Rangoon. We have "flag day" and "carnation day, " and the English have "primrose day, " but "Buddha day" is all the year round in Bumiah. The new railroad carries an increasing number of tourists up "the river of the lost footsteps, " but the swarms it brings down to the temple of the great god of Idleness there on the hill, surrounded by the English cantonment, constitutes a "yellow peril.
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