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One may leave Rangoon in a comfortable train, and in about eighteen hours reach the old capital of Upper Burma, the beautiful Mandalay, which is nearly four hundred miles distant. The same journey may be taken by the river Irrawady if one has more leisure and means; and he may thus enjoy one of the most beautiful and sumptuous river journeys in the world.
In order to appreciate the wide extent of the British Empire in the East, one needs to travel over the main lines of India and then steam a thousand miles across the Bay of Bengal to Burma. Landing at Rangoon, which is the doorway of the land, he reëmbarks upon one of the sumptuous Irrawady River boats and steams northward another thousand miles into the very heart of the country.
"When at 'ome he may content himself with whisky, But if once he lands upon a foreign shore On the Nile or Irrawady He forgets his native toddy, And he takes his 'arf-and-'arf in blood and gore. Blood and gore, And he takes his 'arf-and-'arf in blood and gore.
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