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a five-mile walk (round trip) past the racetrack
& thru the civil lines to a long bridge over a wet
weather stream
where the native town begins; the road was beauti-
fully [beautifully] shady from a row of trees on each side.

October 4, 1922 - Wednesday

We have a big barge lashed to our side of the boat
which about doubles the cargo space; sometimes
they have one on each side, if the needs of the
river towns require it. We passed Pagan, famous
for its thousand pagodas, early this morn; I was
awake & up in my cabin, but didn't know what
place it was, so missed this opportunity of getting
a glimpse of it—to my deep disgust; this ancient
capital & the ruby mines at Mogok are the two
places I most wish to visit in all B. The Chindwin,
which is a turbulent & dirty stream from the hill
districts to the west, flows into the main stream
above P., & we can notice the difference at once in
more ways than one. I missed breakfast this a.m.
We came to Yenangyaung, the famous oil field,
this p.m., where the Cs. got off to see friends, & where
a British couple with a baby, a maid & man ser-
vant [servant] got on—as did a number of unaccompanied
men; the woman & baby have a cabin joining mine
while the husband is opposite; the men are stacked
up with the latter, Mr. C., & the other two cabins on
the other side; the couple sat beside me at dinner.
I sewed again today, but broke a needle on one of
the corset covers after getting one fixed. Got off at
Magwe on the east bank, where we tied up, & where a big pagoda festi-
val [festival] is in progress, as it is the end of the Buddhist
feast of lights; the G's were with me, & after walk-

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ing [walking] about a bit, they tried to do some bargaining but
did not purchase anything. They are from Simla
& find B. quite different from India. We were
late returning to the boat, so as dinner had begun
we did not stop to dress, tho we had a big tableful
to face.

October 5, 1922 - Thursday

I lost my needle last eve while ashore, so
that ends my sewing for the present. Began a
small sweater for Mr. Ah Sou's little daughter,
white-out of the baby cap I unraveled not long
ago, striped with 3 shades of pink—cerise,
rose, & shell, blocked around waist & on
shoulders.

We reached Prome this Friday eve & I was
one of the 1st ones off & up to the A.B.M. compound
to see if Miss D. was there, but she had left the
day before the cook told me. I sat down on the
back steps to write a note, having gone prepared,
& mosquitoes of about the most blood-thirsty
variety I've seen yet, nearly devoured me before
I could escape. I gave the boy the note to Miss C. to mail
& then walked up the bund road quite a piece
before returning to the boat.

Have found out the C's
are at the Gyna. Club, as they all got to talking of
Misses C. & N at the dinner table, & I remembered
before they told me that the ladies came out on
the same boat; not only that but sat at the same
table. We lost most of the men early this a.m., but
2 or 3 are still with us. The last couple are going
all the way to R. as the woman & child are "going
home"; she has wine every eve, smokes, & is a
great card player; he drinks also, but something
stronger, ditto as to the weed. She has the largest
hands I've seen on a female in months. The