Under the Sun; Impressions of Indian Cities: With a Chapter Dealing With the Later Life of Nana Sahib
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We could not allow Upper Burma to fall into the hands of any other European Power, and we were, as the owners of Lower Burma, more or less responsible for Thebaw's fidelity to his obligations to our own MANDALAY. I40 Subjects. Our action produced iio good result, so six and a half years later we marched into Mandalay almost without a shot, and Thebaw is to-day enjoying a change which, though of less responsibility, can hardly be called one of greater freedom on the coast of the Bombay Presidenc...y. Such is the significance of these shaded gardens; and as one leaves them to cross the wide, open spaces of bumt-up grass which have taken the place of the old, dangerous, and unhealthy native city, one is little disposed to quarrel with an an- nexation which has placed under our government a little people which has ever since congratulated itself upon this transference of its allegiance. Outside the fort there is much to see. The exquisite delicacy of the Queen's Golden Monastery, the squat magnificence of Chow-tor-yar-jee-paya — this, by the way, is the way it is pronounced, not the way it is spelled ; the thousand pagodas — there are only five hundred and twenty-five as a matter of accuracy ; the Mingun mass of split brickwork — the biggest in the world after the Abhayagiriya pile in Ceylon — and the adj acent bell, which is the largest bell and gives the deepest note of any in the world — there is much to see, if you are anxious to see it all.
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