98 A COLLECTING TRIP 
only one place where we could have mailed letters and 
that we did not know about. 
This trip has been ideal and both wish many 
times that you could all have been with us and seen 
the wonderful things and do the queer things we do. 
Please give my love to every one and with a great 
deal to yourself believe me 
Your most affectionate daughter, 
Ros. 
P.S. We saw lots of game on this trip and ecol- 
leeted many things. Either walking on shore or from 
the boat we saw deer, monkeys and wild elephants, 
to say nothing of water fowl of many sorts. The 
boat stopped so long at places and was so often stuck 
on sand banks that we were really ashore most of the 
time. 
Happy New Year ! 
Rangoon, January 1, 1907. 
Dear Mother : 
It is a very long while since I have written to you 
but this is the first time I have had an opportunity to 
get off a letter where it would catch a foreign mail. 
We left here and went to Mandalay, about which we 
have written, and where we obtained some exéellent 
photographs. Then we took a cargo and bazar steamer 
of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and went to a 
place called Bhamo, near the Chinese frontier. We 
spend a good deal of time on sand banks and so missed 
the express steamer from Bhamo down the river. 
Then we started back on the same cargo boat. After 
more sticking on sand banks we reached Mandalay 
just in time to miss our steamer to Singapore, which 
