We went on another six li, when again he asked me: "Teacher Mo, how many li to Santien ?" "Only eight more li," I said, and he did not ask me again.

I was endeavouring to give him information in the fashion that prevails in his own country.
At Myothit we camped in the dak bungalow, an unfurnished cottage kept for the use of travellers.

The encampment is on the outskirts of a perfectly flat plain, skirted with jungle-clad hills and covered with elephant grass.

Through the plain the broad river Taiping flows on its muddy way to the Irrawaddy.

One hundred sepoys are stationed here under a native officer, a Sirdar, Jemadar, or Subadar (I am not certain which), who called upon me, and stood by me as I ate my tiffin, and, to my great embarrassment, saluted me in the most alarming way every time my eye unexpectedly caught his.