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Updated: May 6, 2025
Some of the pongyes, when the prayers is done, spend all their days gossiping, chewing betel nut and raking through bazaar mud!" Then suddenly he leant forward and stared at his companion as if he were searching for something in his face, as he asked: "Do you happen to know a girl called 'Ma Chit'?"
The Professor, attended by an interpreter, haunted the library, made eloquent signs to the pongyes in charge, and was permitted to examine and make notes of the rarest of their frail treasures, for which favour he duly made a generous acknowledgment. Thanks to Mr.
Many of the pongyes is teachers, for every boy in Burma passes through their hands; but I'm no schoolmaster, though I was once a clerk in the Orderly room. I could not stand the gabble of them scholars, all roaring out the same words at the top of their voices for hours together."
On his first visit he had dismounted, given his horse to its syce, and boldly approached the monastery, outside of which an imposing group of pongyes was assembled. The attitude of some was lofty and disdainful; others, with a friendly glance, acknowledged the stranger's ceremonious greeting.
"I'm not surprised," he rejoined; "I've heard more than once of these white pongyes. I dare say the chap will be as good as his word and will look you up; I foresee an interesting interview." In about three weeks Roscoe's prediction was verified.
The natives are good-natured, kind, soft people none better; they took me in and nursed me, and one of the pongyes doctored me. You see, I was entirely out of touch with Europeans, and when I got cured was just a walking skeleton. Some thief had made away with my boots and breeches, so I stopped among the natives and never laid eyes on a white face for two years.
First of all, there was the morning procession of the stately pongyes, carrying their empty begging-bowls, and looking neither to the right nor left; there were delicious hours in the forests; boating and fishing expeditions on the rivers, or rides to the ruins of ancient cities, half buried in jungle.
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