1857.] The Remains at Pagan. 11 



in theory at least they are white people.* And what is still more 

 curious, the Bengalees appear indirectly to admit the claim ; for our 

 servants in speaking of themselves and their countrymen, as dis- 

 tinguished from the Burmans, constantly made use of the term 

 ' Kala admi' — black man, as the representative of the Burmese 

 Kdld, a foreigner. 



In one part of the series were some representations of punishment 

 in the Buddhist Hells. Demons were pictured beating out the 

 brains of the unhappy with clubs, or elephants trampling on them, 

 and in one place was a perfect picture of Prometheus ; the victim 

 lying on the ground, whilst a monstrous unclean bird pecked at his 

 side. 



From this monastic colony a wooden colonnade, covered with the 

 usual carved gables and tapering slender spires, led to the northern 

 doorway of the Ananda. 



This remarkable building, with a general resemblance in charac- 

 ter to the other great temples, has some marked peculiarities and 

 felicities of its own. They all suggest, but this perhaps above them 

 all suggests, strange memories of the temples of Southern Catholic 

 Europe. The Ananda is in plan a square of nearly 200 feet to the 

 side, and broken on each side by the projection of large gabled vesti- 

 bules which convert the plan into a perfect Greek cross.f (Plate II.) 

 These vestibules are somewhat lower than the square mass of the 

 building, which elevates itself to a height of 35 feet in two tiers of 

 windows. Above this rise six successively diminishing terraces 

 connected by curved converging roofs, the last terrace just affording 

 breadth for the spire which crowns and completes the edifice. The 

 lower half of this spire is the bulging mitre-like pyramid adapted 

 from the temples of India, such as I have described at Tantabeng : 

 the upper half is the same moulded taper pinnacle that terminates 

 the common bell-shaped pagodas of Pegu. The gilded tree caps the 



* But so also thought some of the old travellers. Thus Vincent Lcblanc says ; 

 " The people (of Pegu) are rather whites than blacks, and well shap'cl." I think 

 I have seen some brahmins fairer than any Burmans. But the average tint in 

 Burma is much lighter than in India. One never, I believe, sees a Burman to 

 whom the word black coidd be applied fairly. 



t See also Capt. Tripe's photograph, No. . 



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