[52] The Burmese man’s headgear.
[53] Local civil officer.
[54] In Mandalay, in 1886, a parvenu official was guilty of the same breach of decorum on entering my office. I made no remark at the time, but I mentioned the incident to his friends. The Prime Minister seemed surprised that the earth had not opened and swallowed up that fearful man. The offence was not repeated.
[55] Now Sir John Jardine, K.C.I.E., M.P. for Roxburghshire.
[56] Elephant driver.
[57] Colonel William Cooke, lately Commissary-General in Madras.
[58] Atwin Wun, one of the classes of Ministers, so called from being nominally employed inside (atwin) the Palace, near the person of the King.
[59] As Burma was not under the Madras Government, this arrangement was anomalous and inconvenient; after the war it was abolished.
[60] The late Sir Godfrey Clerk, K.C.V.O., C.B.
[61] Now Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Inspector-General, Royal Irish Constabulary.