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of what we have seen than all I could write. R. Talbot 
Kelley wrote the book. <A fearful line of Westerners 
are here just at present; one wishes they would stay 
at home, for they know so little of what they see after 
they have seen it. 
* BS * * * % 
Well, dinner is ready and I must go, so forgive 
this scrawl, but I had just a few minutes; I am going 
snipe shooting all day tomorrow. You ought to hear 
Ros. and me talking Hindustani now; we are quite 
good at it. ‘‘Totten’’ will not be in it when we get 
back. 
Love to all from 
Tom. 
Gale’s Hotel. 
Mandalay, December 14, 1906. 
Dear Mother : 
Such a vilely dirty hotel you never saw, but it is 
the only cne. Prices like the Waldorf-Astoria. Mos- 
quitoes are very bad. 
As I have already informed you we arrived safely 
at Rangoon. We were delighted to find a large 
number of letters waiting. As you may imagine, every 
line was most welcome. ‘Tell father that we both en- 
joyed his letter. 
Rangoon is a cosmopolitan city, hence not at all 
characteristic of Burma. One sees in the streets every 
day Tamils from Madras, Bengalis from Caleutta, 
Lasears from Chittagong, Chinamen, Malays and Bur- 
mans. It is a modern city built on rather rickety 
lines. The great pagodas are well kept up, for twenty 
