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hoping to make them more manageable and of some service when 

 beyond the jurisdiction of appeals, laws, Acts, and Regulations. 

 Eight bells had now gone, and the more noisy of the party had 

 fallen asleep, and before the next hour was struck, all was quiet. 



50. Day had hardly dawned, however, when all were up again, 



and busy, preparing for their intended 

 a.SrSmiSSibet departure. Those whose lares etpmato 



could be carried by the owner, were the 

 first to get off, while others, whose baggage was of a more bulky na- 

 ture, lost no time in engaging carts, which now crowded the bank 

 in such numbers, as to make it absolutely dangerous to thread one's 

 way through them. The bullocks, restless with their close proxi- 

 mity to one another, kept up an incessant kicking-and-butting pro- 

 cess, that imperilled the lives of passers-by. The younger portion 

 of the female passengers now lined the ship's rails, and amused 

 themselves by chaffing their male companions, who were politely bar- 

 gaining for carts for them — an office my minstrel peon seemed far 

 more interested in, than his legitimate duty. After a deal of 

 squabbling and abuse, the bargains were struck and the carts 

 loaded, the fair owners being seated on the top of their property, 

 where they had to remain patiently, until the carts in advance had 

 moved on. The scene, though a very noisy and dusty one, was 

 not altogether uninteresting ; crowds of gaily-dressed people, repre- 

 senting all colours of the rainbow, now thronged the bank, either for 

 amusement, or to welcome their friends. The elderly men and 

 women were content with the more sombre colours, and satisfied 

 with the umbrellas of their own country, manufactured from bam- 

 boos, and water-proof paper covering of the same material ; but the 

 younger portion of the crowd showed a preference for the European 

 sunshade, — yellow, green, and red being the principal colours, the 

 first predominating as productive of that yellow tint of complexion 

 so much admired by both sexes. 



51. Nor had our Burmese passengers neglected their 



Costume and toilet of Burmese toilets J evidently much care had 

 described, and contrasted with that been bestowed on the arrangement of 

 of British Burma. their hair, and improvement of com- 



plexion by an application of a cosmetic common to the country.* 

 The fashion of Upper Burma had apparently been carefully observed 

 both by the men and the women. With the former, the difference 

 in costume principally consists in the arrangement of the goung- 



* There are two descriptions of cosmetics used in Burma, — one manufactured from the 

 starch of rice, and the other (thanakar) made by grinding the bark of murraya paniculata 

 on a sandstone pallet with a little water ; the paste is applied and allowed to dry on the body, 

 when the whole is carefully rubbed into the pores of the skin with a towel. 



