I have to express my acknowledgments to the friends who have given me photographs to illustrate the book. My special thanks are due to Mr. A. Leeds, I.C.S. (retired), for a large number of characteristic and charming pictures.

H. T. W.

September, 1913.

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[INTRODUCTORY: A RETROSPECT AND SOME COMPARISONS]1
II.[EARLY YEARS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS]16
III.[THE FIRST SUBDIVISION: THE SECRETARIAT]36
IV.[SOME ASPECTS OF BURMESE LIFE AND CHARACTER]55
V.[ON THE FRONTIER]73
VI.[THE SECRETARIAT: THE LAST SUBDIVISION]90
VII.[THE TAKING OF MANDALAY]99
VIII.[EARLY DAYS AT MANDALAY]114
IX.[LORD DUFFERIN’S VISIT—MANDALAY ONCE MORE]137
X.[THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE ANNEXATION]154
XI.[A FEW WORDS ON BUDDHISM]183
XII.[UNDER SIR CHARLES CROSTHWAITE, 1887-1890]201
XIII.[A VISIT TO THE SHAN STATES]225
XIV.[RANGOON—MANDALAY]235
XV.[LOWER BURMA ONCE MORE]256
XVI.[MANDALAY: THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION]266
XVII.[THE CHIEF COURT—LAST YEARS IN BURMA]285
[GLOSSARY]307
[INDEX]309

[NOTE]