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red often before, but my version is taken entirely from the Burmese song. It is, as I have said, known to nearly every Burman. I wanted to write only what the Burmese themselves thought; whether I have succeeded or not, the reader can judge. I am indebted to Messrs. William Blackwood and Sons for permission to use parts of my article on 'Burmese Women'--_Blackwood's Magazine_, May, 1895--in the present work. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. LIVING BELIEFS 1 II. HE WHO FOUND THE LIGHT--I. 17 III. HE WHO FOUND THE LIGHT--II. 34 IV. THE WAY TO THE GREAT PEACE 46 V. WAR--I. 56 VI. WAR--II. 77 VII. GOVERNMENT 87 VIII. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 102 IX. HAPPINESS 116 X. THE MONKHOOD--I. 127 XI. THE MONKHOOD--II. 153 XII. PRAYER 158 XIII. FESTIVALS 166 XIV. WOMEN--I. 185 XV. WOMEN--II. 205 XVI. WOMEN--III. 224 XVII. DIVORCE 228 XVIII. DRINK 242 XIX. MANNERS 248 XX. 'NOBLESSE OBLIGE' 256 XXI. ALL LIFE IS ONE 277 XXII. DEATH, THE DELIVERER 302 XXIII. THE POTTER'S WHEEL 322 XXIV. THE FOREST OF TIME 342 XXV. CONCLUSION 348 THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE CHAPTER I LIVING BELIEFS 'The observance of the law alone entitles to the right of belonging to my religion.'--_Saying of the Buddha._ For the first few years of my stay in Burma my life was so full of excitement that I had little care or time for any thought but of to-day. There was, first of all, my few months in Upper Burma in the King's time before the war, months which were full of danger and the exhilaration of danger, when all the surroundings were too new and too curious to leave leisure for examination beneath the surface. Then came the flight from Upper Burma at the time of the war, and then the war itself. And this war lasted four years. Not four years of fighting in Burma proper, for most of the Irrawaddy valley was peaceful enough by the end of 1889; but as the centra
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