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CHAPTER II. 



OTHER AREAS IN BURMA. 



Bhamo District. 



Captain G. II. Medd, Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. — Time about 9 

 a.m. He was walking along the centre of a 

 road but experienced an extraordinary inability 

 to follow a straight line, and lost the sense of height in stepping. 

 He found himself diverted to the left side of the road, into the 

 centre again and thence to the edge once more. The movement 

 lasted \\ to 2 minutes and appeared to be from E. to W., the 

 road running N. — S. He became intensely giddy and felt all the sensa- 

 tions associated with sea-sickness. Other wayfarers approaching from 

 the opposite direction also staggered across the road in the same direc- 

 tion. At this observer's bungalow the servants were much alarm- 

 ed, reported that the building which is an old wooden frame one 

 had cracked and groaned during the shocks, and that the doors and 

 windows swung open. High trees around swayed visibly at the 

 tops, and four dogs kept in the house rushed out barking. Judging 

 from previous experiences of earth tremors both in South America 

 and in the East, Captain Medd considered the shock to be of 

 considerable force, its short duration probably accounting for the 

 absence of damage to brick buildings. 



Head Clerk, Irrawaddy Flotilla Company's Agency. — He was riding 



in China Street on a bicycle when the shock 



occurred, and found it impossible to keep his 



balance. He also felt severe giddiness. The population of the 



quarter rushed into the street in alarm. 



Mr. F. Lewisohn, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner. — Summarising the 

 reports which reached him, wrote that no one 

 in the Bhamo district observed the earthquake 

 with any accuracy. The time did not appear to have been checked. 

 One observer stated the direction to be from W.N.W. to E.S.E., 

 another within three miles of the former at the time of the occurrence, 

 from E. to W. The former gave the length of duration as 1| 

 minutes, the latter from l\ to 2 minutes, while a third person 

 at Shwegu, a town 40 miles W. of Bhamo, felt 2 shocks from 



