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untry that it may well form our last peep at Burma. Far away in the jungle on the crest of a lonely hill stands a ruined pagoda. The white ornamental plaster-work which once beautified it has long since disappeared, and in the rents and fissures which seam its rich red brickwork venomous serpents hide. The niche which formerly contained a Buddha is unoccupied, but, as though to soften its decay, kindly creepers have covered its rugged exterior with a bower of foliage and flowers, while the leogryphs which once marked the entrance to its enclosure are buried in vegetation. All around are trees of many kinds, which tower above the jungle, among which large and beautiful butterflies flit among the flowers, while birds of gay plumage gambol among the tree-tops to the distant song of the bulbul. It was a pretty scene, but sad in its loneliness, to which a touch of pathos was added by the figure of a solitary priest praying before the empty shrine. Wondering what had brought him so far from any known habitation, I watched him long as he prayed. Just as the sun set and the day closed he plucked a lovely flower from the scrub and placed it reverently on the shrine where Buddha once had stood, and as I turned my pony's head in the direction of my distant camp, the slowly-retreating figure of the "hpungi" became lost in the glory of the sunset. THE END * * * * * LIST OF VOLUMES IN THE PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SERIES EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR EACH 1/6 NET BURMA EGYPT ENGLAND FRANCE HOLLAND HOLY LAND INDIA ITALY JAPAN MOROCCO SCOTLAND SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH SEAS SWITZERLAND WALES PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. 27 RICHMOND STREET WEST, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA AUSTRALASIA. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MELBOURNE * * * * * _BY THE SAME ARTIST AND AUTHOR_ BURMA By R. TALBOT KELLY, R.B.A. _Containing 75 full-page Illustrations in Colour. Square Demy 8vo., cloth, gilt top_ Price 20/- net (_Post free, Price 20s. 6d._) "His landscapes--in which Nature is seen unforced by the hands of col
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