[12] Paddy is the local name for unhusked rice.
[13] Gyi, great.
[14] Major-General Horace Browne, I.S.C.
[15] Colonel C. H. E. Adamson, C.I.E.
[16] Mr. A. H. Hildebrand, C.I.E.
[17] Called after General Godwin, who commanded the force in the Second War.
[18] The population of Rangoon in 1881 was 134,176; in 1911 it numbered 293,316. In 1878 its trade was valued at £10,484,469, as compared with £32,040,000 in 1911 (private trade alone).
[19] A Chief Commissioner, newly arrived, whose face was not yet familiar, was told by a barber in the town, in the course of his ministration, that he should try to join the gymkhana, as that was the way to get into society.
[20] Afterwards of the Commission.
[21] Nat, a spiritual being in Burmese mythology. For a full account of nats the curious may refer to Sir Richard Temple’s learned and sumptuous work “The Thirty-Seven Nats.”