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12 February 1906 — Mandalay | |
Monday. 12th [February 1906]. As I sleep behind a partition on the big verandah on 1st floor open all round to the air & only closed up about 3 ft by a matting I could hear all the noises of the place. The pariah dogs barked particularly much last night & by the time they quieted down the jungle & other fowls began to crow apparently taking the fine moonlight for daylight. The consequence of this is that I slept little & was good for little in the morning. I let Nela go out without me at 7.30 as she had joined forces with Mrs DuBusson & I read “Kein” & dosed till they returned & only went out with Nela at 4 when we had been invited to have tea with Mr & Mrs Broadbent whose bungalow is close by this hotel. Mr & Mrs DuBusson are staying there & a Mr & Mrs Luddington joined the party. Afterwards Mr Broadbent took me for a drive in his poney cart round the interior of the Fort, the only “drive” here & then on to a Monastery near by where the rest of the party had walked in search of Burmese carving wh they hoped to obtain off the houses of the monks. It was dark before we reached Salween House. It had been a very hot day but got cooler after dark. Nela & I spent the evening talking to Mr & Mrs Sam Browne (US). Col. & Mrs Burton had left. A gentleman joined our dinner table & in course of conversation told us that he was a plague Dr that the plague was now in China St here—& that out of 82 cases all had died but 3– He said that this is the first appearance of plague in Burmah & was now only amongst the Chinese part of the population. | |
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