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IMAGES IN ONE OE THE CHAPELS WHICH SURROUND RANGOON 



"chota-hazree," or early breakfast, on the 

 porch outside one's bedroom, the prob- 

 ability that crows have keen eyes and 

 empty stomachs becomes a self-evident 

 truth. And so Rangoon, with its nonde- 

 script architecture and its polyglot 

 crowds, fails to more than disappoint the 

 most easily pleased. 



But this tale is not yet ended ! On a 



low, green hill bowered in grateful shade 

 stands one of those splendid monuments 

 which Buddhists raise — the most glo- 

 rious, overwhelming shrine of all Indo- 

 China, the very high-water mark of the 

 art and architecture of Burma. Imagine 

 a gracefully tapering spire, gilded over all 

 and surmounted by its hti or umbrella of 

 skillfully wrought and gilded metal; 



