TH E STAGE AT WAPYI-DAUNG
a little village in a stockade, and its only street is the
highway, which enters it at one gate and leaves it
at the other. Kyauklebin, the next halting-place, is
six miles farther on, It is a hamlet by the highway,
where the latter descends to cross by a black bridge
over a stream. Facing the rest-house is a military
outpost, enclosed within a ditch and wall. At thq gate
a sentry, with bayonet fixed, walks to and fro through
the twenty-four hours, and through it, over the narrow
drawbridge, enter the long trains of rationing mules,
the armed men afoot between Mogok and the river,
and the elephants laden with military stores. The
great swaying beasts, as they enter, dwarf the little
houses of the post, and I wonder in how many minutes
they could trample down the whole interior of wood
760
A VOTIVE OFFERING.
p. 760.
