You had better follow me, now, until we get beyond the busy streets." Keeping some twenty yards behind his guide, Stanley went on until, after nearly half an hour's walking, they passed through a gate in the city walls.

He now closed up to the officer and, after another half-hour's walk across a cultivated country, they entered a forest.

The ground now rose steadily and, after keeping on for two miles, they emerged from the trees at the top of a hill.

The space had been cleared of timber, but it was nearly covered with bushes and young trees.

In the centre were the ruins of a temple, that had evidently existed long before the Burmese dynasty occupied the country, and had been erected by some older race.