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less elaborate than those of the Amarapoora Temple ; neither is the 

 court-yard nor out-buildings generally kept as clean. The entrance 

 is through a hole in the wall, this circular gate-way being apparently 

 peculiar to the Chinese ecclesiastic type of architecture. The 

 Chinese community, I am told, are represented by a head-man who 

 is selected by the Woon with the consent of the people, and is con- 

 sulted and entrusted with all matters that concern them. There is 

 a great sameness about their shops, and nothing is exposed for sale, 

 but the owner or his representative may be seen seated at the win- 

 dow smoking, and ever ready for a chat with passers-by to whom 

 he enumerates his goods in the best-natured manner. For the most 

 part they consist of tea, sugar-candy, silk, cards, straw hats, Man- 

 chester piece-goods, opium, apples, preserved oranges, vermillion, 

 gypsum, yellow orpiment, Chinese medicines, and body colours in 

 large variety, lead, copper, and various other odds and ends. Since 

 my arrival Messrs. Sutherland and Co. have established an agency 

 here, much to the disgust of the Chinamen, who find they are being 

 considerably undersold. The gentleman who represents the firm, 

 informed me that his principal business would be among the peo- 

 ple north of Bhamo, with whom he intended carrying on a system 

 of barter, exchanging twist, cloth, thread, or whatever they required 

 for ivory, rubber, wax, gums, amber, &c. This he said would 

 entail a certain amount of risk, as a credit-system would be neces- 

 sary, but that the profits would be so considerable that a bad debt now 

 and again would little matter. Before I left Bhamo my informant 

 had commenced his speculations on a somewhat extensive scale, 

 and he told me that the people he had to deal with — Kakhyens 

 included — were remarkably honest, and seldom failed to fulfil their 

 promises : in some instances, he said, he had advanced Bs. 500 

 worth of goods, and that on his next visit to the village the equiva- 

 lent was always forthcoming. 



150. The Governor's private residence and court-house are 



within the same enclosure, and situat- 



Governor's private residence and e( j on one f ^q by.gtreets east of the 

 court-house. . n ., , .,•',. -. , , 



mam road, the building and out-nouses 

 have a shabby, untidy appearance, and no attempt at decoration 

 has been made, not even has the spiral-tiered roof been adopted, to 

 which a Governor is entitled. The enclosure is a bamboo mat 

 fence, with a few rusty old pieces of ordnance at each gate, weapons 

 that should most be feared by the gunners ! 



151. The only building within the palisade that really attracts 



attention is a seven-roofed teak thorn 



Specimen of Burmese ecclesiasti- f recen t construction, the religious 

 cal architecture described. . , * -r> -i i j. i •„ 



bequest of a Burman who has spent Ins 



