It is a solid Burmese pagoda, built of concentric layers of brick and mortar, and surmounted with a solid bell-shaped dome that is still intact.

It stands alone on the plain near a group of banyans, and its erection no doubt gained many myriads of merits for the conscience-stricken Buddhist who found the money to build it.

All goldleaf has been peeled off the pagoda years ago.
It was a picturesque party that now enfiladed into the wide stretch of sand which in the rainy season forms the bed of the river.

Mounted on his white pony, there was the inarticulate European who had discarded his Chinese garb and was now dressed in the aesthetic garments of the Australian bush; there were his two coolies and Laotseng his boy, none of whom could speak any English, the two officers in their loose Chinese clothes, mounted on tough little ponies, and eight soldiers.

They were Shans of kindly feature, small and nimble fellows, in neat uniforms--green jackets edged with black and braided with yellow, yellow sashes, and loose dark-blue knickerbockers--the uniform of the Sawbwa of Ganai.