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Identifier: indianpicturespr00malc (find matches)
Title: Indian pictures and problems
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Malcolm, Ian, Sir, 1868-1944
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Burma -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Grant Richard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ot along with the sahibs poloponies; Chinamen bustle about their business; littleJap girls, in all their finery, are wheeling perambu-lators; and the European globe-trotter, in whiteducks, stands open-moutlied beside the Sikh police-man, trying to make head or tail of this polychro-matic confusion. He sees Hindu temples, mosques,pagodas, and joss-houses within a few yards of oneanother; he meets a variety of processions withbands and banners in the course of his morningstroll, remarking the similarity of their externalsand the difference of their import; he hears in thecourse of that walk more languages spoken thancan have issued from the Tower of Babel—andperhaps he remembers that only half a century agoin Rangoon the war-cry was: Burma for theBurmese ! Herein lies the charm of Rangoon—alwaysfrom the tourist point of view; you never knowwhat you will meet next. As you drive alongany street you may encounter a Burmese funeral, though you might think it a local junketing of the 190
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RANGOON merriest kind. I came across one not long ago,accompanied by the usual band and a string ofbullock-carts carrying gifts for the priesthood.Small coins were being distributed by a retainerto a crowd of delighted little boys; friends andrelations, in their brightest habiliment, smoked andlaughed as they sauntered along before or behindthe corpse, which was borne aloft in a garishconveyance covered over with roofs of diminishingsizes tapering to a spire. Nobody was the leastdisconcerted when the flimsy erection gave wayand toppled the body over into the shop of aChinese soda-water merchant, who complainedbitterly that so inauspicious an event would rol)him of all his trade. Next I encountered a Hinduwedding, and observed at the head of the proces-sion a large banner and a quartette of semi-nudedancers capering wildly with vicarious joy for afew annas per hour. A multitude with flags fol-low these, and then a kind of portable shrine withseveral images, which we classify as heathen
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