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...of the Pagodas and of the Palace at Mandelay (100 to 110)
There are many kinds of people in Burmah. The Burmese are a highly developed people but the men are lazy. The women do much business and keep little shops and vote, and are simply adorable! (see postal 111 to 115). The missionaries have not converted Burmese to any extent, but have been successful with primitive tribes whose worship is animistic or nature worship (116 to 123).
Postal 125 is what we nearly killed ourselves to see and 126 looks like the very elephant we saw. 127 is a sight most familiar. 128 these people come to hotels and do juggling and show off their snakes whenever anyone manifests an interest (See 129, 130, 131, 132)
When we visited a Buddhist school we saw boys and girls sitting together. There were nearly four hundred pupils. They would soon have lunch.

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