item: #1 of 15 id: 14049 author: Douie, Marjorie title: The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery date: None words: 71478 flesch: 80 summary: That painful necessity which dogs the career of greater men than Absalom. I've done my share of work, Coryndon, and I've taken my own risks, but any cases I've had against white men haven't been against men like the Padré. keywords: absalom; assistant; away; boy; burman; chinaman; coryndon; dark; day; door; evening; eyes; face; hand; hartley; head; heath; hour; house; joicey; leh; leh shin; life; man; mangadone; men; mhtoon; mhtoon pah; mind; mrs; night; pah; place; room; saw; shin; shiraz; shop; street; things; thought; thy; time; voice; way; white; wilder cache: 14049.txt plain text: 14049.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 15171 author: Griffith, William title: Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries date: None words: 203490 flesch: 69 summary: The banks of the Naree are clothed with small _Furas_, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt. _6th_.--Not much cultivation was observed on the road to-day, which extended over a naked marshy saline plain, or through a _Kureel_, and small _Jundy_ and _Phulahi_ district. keywords: a.m.; abies; abundance; air; appearance; arborea; artemisia; ascent; assam; bank; barren; base; beautiful; bed; berberis; birds; black; body; boundary; brown; cabul; camp; change; chief; churra; close; commences; common; compositae; consists; country; course; cultivation; cut; day; days; deal; degrees; descent; direction; distance; ditto; dry; east; elevation; etc; euphorbia; evening; extent; face; features; feet; ferns; ficus; fields; fine; fish; flower; foliis; following; foot; form; fort; fruit; gaultheria; general; genus; good; grasses; grassy; green; ground; half; halting; head; heavy; height; high; hills; hours; houses; journey; jungle; leaves; left; length; level; like; limestone; little; looking; low; major; man; march; means; miles; mimosa; mogoung; morning; mosses; mountains; nature; near; new; north; northern; nullah; number; oaks; occurs; ones; opposite; p.m.; panee; parts; pass; passing; path; pendula; people; pinus; place; plains; plants; point; polygonum; portion; present; primula; quercus; rain; range; rare; ravine; red; remains; rhododendron; rice; ridge; right; river; road; rocks; rosa; route; running; runs; saccharum; salix; sand; saw; season; sides; size; snow; soil; sort; south; species; specimens; spots; stones; stony; stream; summit; surface; tea; temperature; thermometer; thibaudia; thing; time; town; trees; uncommon; upper; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; way; weather; west; wheat; white; wind; woods; yards; yellow; yesterday cache: 15171.txt plain text: 15171.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 16863 author: Willson, Arabella M. title: Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons date: None words: 80750 flesch: 68 summary: Mr. Judson, considering himself sufficiently master of the language to preach publicly, decided to build a small zayat, on a much frequented road, where he could preach the gospel, and converse with any native who might desire it, and where Mrs. Judson could meet female inquirers, and hold a school for religious and other instruction. Mrs. Judson gave Moung Ing money that he might follow and procure a mitigation of this torture, instead of which, Mr. Judson was again thrown down, and the cords so tightened as almost to prevent respiration. keywords: america; ava; boardman; burman; cause; chapter; children; christian; country; day; days; dear; death; family; father; friends; god; good; government; health; heart; heathen; heaven; home; hope; house; husband; judson; language; letter; life; little; love; mind; missionaries; missionary; months; mother; mrs; native; new; night; place; poor; present; rangoon; religion; return; spirit; thought; thy; time; way; world; years cache: 16863.txt plain text: 16863.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 21242 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War date: None words: 107846 flesch: 80 summary: He pointed out that some change might possibly have been made, and that other men might have been placed on sentry. Many men constantly run risks as great to save others. keywords: army; attack; ava; british; brooke; burmese; country; course; day; days; doubt; end; enemy; fire; force; forest; general; guns; harry; left; little; man; meinik; men; morning; native; night; officer; people; place; point; position; rangoon; river; round; stanley; thought; time; town; troops; uncle; village; war; way; work cache: 21242.txt plain text: 21242.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 22749 author: Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon) title: From Edinburgh to India & Burmah date: None words: 123665 flesch: 72 summary: To-night the little station band of little native men played outside the club under the trees, with two or three hurricane lamps lighting their music and serious dark faces, and the flying foxes hawked above them. VIII Is -- without apologies -- of first impressions of India; and about the landing and entertainments of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales -- Great people and little people, and their affairs; Royal Receptions to snake-charmers -- Illuminations, Gun-firing, and the Bands playing God save the King -- Edward the --? keywords: afternoon; air; beauty; black; blue; board; boat; bombay; brown; burmah; burmese; chapter; children; chinese; clothes; club; colour; country; course; dark; day; days; deck; deep; dinner; east; effect; evening; eyes; faces; feet; figures; fish; flowers; friends; gold; golden; good; green; grey; hair; half; hand; head; hills; home; hour; house; illustration; india; jungle; know; ladies; lady; left; life; line; little; look; looking; man; men; miles; morning; music; native; new; night; north; notes; open; outside; pagoda; pass; people; place; prince; rangoon; read; red; river; road; room; round; royal; sand; sea; shadows; ship; shore; silver; sky; south; steps; street; sun; things; think; thought; time; train; trees; water; way; white; women; work; world; yards; yellow cache: 22749.txt plain text: 22749.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 29527 author: Fielding, H. (Harold) title: The Soul of a People date: None words: 90573 flesch: 82 summary: He made mistakes as other men do. He learnt as other men learn, through suffering and mistake. keywords: buddha; buddhism; burman; burmese; children; country; day; death; end; faith; forest; friend; girl; good; government; heart; house; husband; king; laws; life; light; love; man; men; monastery; monks; new; pagoda; peace; people; religion; river; soul; teaching; tell; things; thought; time; truth; village; way; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 29527.txt plain text: 29527.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 30064 author: Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) title: Peeps at Many Lands: Burma date: None words: 22051 flesch: 66 summary: By thousands of little rills, or rushing torrents which score furrows in its sides, the mountain gives up its store of water to feed the thirsty plains, and with it yields also valuable ores and minerals, which are often carried many many miles away to enrich a people too far removed from the mountain to know the origin of their wealth. There are many other kinds of boats in use, all equally distinctive in character; and even the dug-out canoe is pretty, its fore-foot rising clear of the water in a slight curve, which lends an element of beauty to what would otherwise have been simply a straight log. keywords: bamboo; banks; beauty; burma; burmans; burmese; country; feet; forest; form; ground; irrawaddy; land; life; mandalay; men; pagoda; people; place; rangoon; rice; river; streets; sun; time; town; trees; village; water; women; work cache: 30064.txt plain text: 30064.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 32375 author: Griggs, William Charles title: Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country date: None words: 28810 flesch: 80 summary: She was a very pious woman and always gave the best rice and _puc_ to the priests as they walked, rice _chattie_ in hand, through the city in the early morning. The eggs were soon brought back from the _hpea_ country where the lord Sa Kyah had taken them for safety, and in due time were hatched. keywords: boh; brother; country; day; hare; head; house; jungle; king; long; lord; man; nang; palace; saw; tiger; time; tree; water; wife cache: 32375.txt plain text: 32375.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 34578 author: Bigandet, Paul Ambroise title: The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I) date: None words: 123064 flesch: 66 summary: At last Buddha, assuming a lofty and commanding tone, said to them, I declare unto you that I am a Buddha, knowing the four great truths and showing the way to Neibban. Anaumadathi replied to them that the object of their wishes should be granted unto them when the Buddha Gaudama would appear in the world. keywords: assembly; beings; buddha; buddhism; buddhists; city; come; country; day; days; death; direction; disciples; doctrines; end; existence; father; following; food; gaudama; good; great; having; heart; influence; kathaba; king; knowledge; law; left; life; like; man; means; men; merits; mind; monastery; nats; nature; neibban; order; passions; people; perfect; perfection; phralaong; place; position; power; presence; present; prince; radzagio; rahan; religious; royal; season; seats; son; soul; state; things; thoodaudana; time; tree; water; way; work; world; years; young cache: 34578.txt plain text: 34578.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 36504 author: Annandale, Nelson title: Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa date: None words: 92514 flesch: 71 summary: it consists largely of diatoms, while the species of _Hislopia_ and _Arachnoidea_ possess an alimentary canal modified for the purpose of retaining flagellate organisms until they become encysted. Only two genera can be recognized in this family, _Arachnoidea_, Moore, from Central Africa, and _Hislopia_, Carter, which is widely distributed in Eastern Asia. keywords: annandale; base; bengalensis; brackish; buds; calcutta; carteri; cells; colour; ephydatia; fig; figs; form; freshwater; gemmule; genus; green; hydra; ibid; iii; indian; lacustris; lake; membrane; minute; mus; museum; plumatella; polypide; polyzoa; ponds; regards; rule; skeleton; slender; small; soc; species; specimens; spicules; sponge; spongilla; statoblasts; structure; surface; tentacles; type; var; water; zoarium; zooecia; zooecium; zool; | | cache: 36504.txt plain text: 36504.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 38306 author: Levett Yeats, S. (Sidney) title: A Galahad of the Creeks; The Widow Lamport date: None words: 56191 flesch: 86 summary: All his heavy baggage had come on before, and Ah-Geelong, the Chinese servant, whom he had engaged as head man, was evidently a treasure. he groaned, I don't think it was worth it, even for this. Jackson, old man, can't you speak? keywords: bullin; bunny; chapter; church; day; door; eddy; elder; eyes; face; galbraith; good; half; halsa; hand; hawkshawe; head; heart; home; house; jackson; lamport; left; light; look; man; manuel; men; mie; moment; mrs; old; peregrine; phipson; room; round; sarkies; smalley; table; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; work cache: 38306.txt plain text: 38306.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 40001 author: Ellis, Beth title: An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah date: None words: 43244 flesch: 66 summary: I am not naturally a coward, except when I am afraid; at other times I am as brave as a lion. As we neared Mandalay we passed many groups of half-ruined shrines, images and pagodas, covered with moss and creeper, deserted by the human beings who erected them, and visited now only by the birds and other jungle folk, who build their nests and make their homes in the shade of the once gorgeous buildings. keywords: brother; burman; burmese; country; course; day; days; evening; good; half; head; home; hours; house; jungle; ladies; land; life; mandalay; manner; men; mind; morning; mrs; native; night; place; pony; rangoon; remyo; ride; road; room; round; station; table; tiger; time; tree; village; water; way; work; world cache: 40001.txt plain text: 40001.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 45774 author: Norway, G. (George) title: Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle date: None words: 71329 flesch: 81 summary: CHAPTER VIII KIRKE ESCAPES Kirke's jealousy of Ralph Denham had dated from the earliest commencement of their ill-fated voyage; and Ralph had not been as way-wise as an older person might have wished him to be in avoiding occasions for arousing it. So Ralph Denham, Esq., marching orders are yours. keywords: agnes; boat; boy; brudenel; burmese; captain; dacoits; day; dear; denham; english; eyes; face; fire; friends; gilchrist; god; good; ground; half; hand; head; help; home; jungle; kirke; left; life; little; man; men; miss; mother; mrs; night; osborn; people; place; poor; ralph; rangoon; rice; sea; set; things; thought; time; village; water; way; wills; work; young cache: 45774.txt plain text: 45774.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 45915 author: Crosthwaite, C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) title: The Pacification of Burma date: None words: 132602 flesch: 68 summary: A sign of the coming end--slowly coming, it may be, but still the coming end--of a very weary struggle with a system of resistance which was costing us many good men and a lavish expenditure of money. The present Sawbwa, who was at the Delhi Durbar in 1903, is reported to have said to one of the officers from Burma, We thought we were great men, but now we see that we are only monkeys from the jungle. keywords: administration; bhamo; british; burma; burmese; captain; chief; chinese; chins; civil; colonel; column; commissioner; country; dacoits; deputy; district; east; expedition; force; fort; frontier; general; good; government; hildebrand; hills; india; infantry; january; kachins; karenni; king; leaders; left; lieutenant; little; major; mandalay; march; maung; men; miles; military; mogaung; möng; möngnai; north; northern; officers; order; party; people; place; police; position; power; prince; province; rifles; river; road; salween; sawbwa; scott; shan; siamese; sir; south; states; superintendent; territory; time; town; tribe; troops; upper; village; way; west; white; work; years cache: 45915.txt plain text: 45915.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 51080 author: Cochrane, Henry Park title: Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage date: None words: 63369 flesch: 73 summary: But sweeping charges that officials of whatever nation, in outlying colonies, are profligate and tyrannical do gross injustice to many noble men who are doing their utmost for the advancement of morality and justice. Many people I have seen in European and American cities must have been Chins. keywords: british; buddhism; burma; burmans; burmese; children; christian; country; custom; day; death; english; feet; gautama; god; government; head; heathen; home; house; judson; jungle; karens; king; land; language; law; life; little; man; men; missionaries; missionary; native; near; new; pagoda; people; place; power; priest; races; religion; school; shans; spirit; talaings; time; village; way; wife; women; work; world; worship; years cache: 51080.txt plain text: 51080.txt