All the different races represented in Burma have intermarried with the native Burmese, and the resulting half-breeds have crossed with other half-breeds.

Most of the better class Eurasian boys (European-Asian) are educated here, some being supported by their fathers, some not.

The former Dr.Marks ingeniously calls after their mothers; the latter, who have been neglected, retain the names (when they are known), of their fathers.

It is amusing to meet among the latter the names of so many brave Englishmen who, in the earlier days when morals had not attained the strictness that now characterises them, gallantly served their country in Burma.
No woman in the world is more catholic in her tastes than the Burmese.
She bestows her loves as variously as the Japanese.

She marries with equal readiness Protestant or Catholic, Turk, Infidel, or Jew.