Chinese goods, including silk and felt. As to railways, they
are very well, and those that the Government has made
are likely to do Bhamo no harm so long as they stop
short at Myitkina. Certainly there is no lack of brisk
business in Bhamo to-day, and even as I sit here in
SH W E K Y IN A
Showing incidentally the manner of mounting a “ hti ” on a Pagoda
the cool shelter of the inner court, men go to and fro
through the business premises, packing bales and
studying invoices, and a stream of traffic passes down
the sunlit street.
But city fathers have their duties, so bidding my
host adieu, I join the moving throng, and glance as I go
at the strange shops of chemists, and of the dealers in
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