THE SILKEN EAST
CH A P T E R I
T H E C O U N T R Y
BURMA, the country described in this book,
occupies a remote corner of South-eastern Asia.
Hidden away there in the folds of mountains which
MOUNT V IC TO R IA
reach down like the fingers of a hand from the heights
of Asia to the sea, it has had leisure to develop a
character and personality of its own. Its best friends
m this sense have been these mountains, which have
