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Updated: September 8, 2025
And now again the Queen ruled in the palace wisely and like a Queen, and this Dwaymenau did not dispute, but what her thoughts were no man could tell. Then came the end. One night the city awakened to a wild alarm. A terrible fleet of war-boats came sweeping along the river thick as locusts the war fleet of the Lord of Prome.
It is in heaps, and of finest quality they say. Here is a jotting from a sketch in colour; I made also one in line to immortalise the Prome triumphal arch. There are more than a dozen flags on it now, and you see two natives putting up two lamps; and the governor, you can imagine he is training his pair of carriage ponies to stand this unusual display.
He was of half a mind to leave the boat at Prome and take the train down to Rangoon. And yet he had told her the truth. It was not right that a young and attractive woman should wander about in the East, unattended save by a middle-aged companion. It would provoke the devil in men who were not wholly bad.
Before the Christian era, Prome was within six miles east of being one of Burmah's many ancient capitals; it marked the ancient boundary between Ava and Pegu, otherwise Upper and Lower Burmah. It is seventy five miles above Rangoon, and has 27,000 inhabitants, and has streets here, and a law court there, and an Anglican church, so it is moving one way or the other. Thayet Myo, January 20th.
When the other vessels joined their crews with the boats' crews of the Fox, heartily entering on the work, every gun in Prome, twenty-three in number, was brought off. In the afternoon the Medusa ascended the river ten miles higher; but Captain Tarleton felt himself bound by his orders to return.
They had now marched a hundred and forty miles, from Prome, without meeting a single inhabitant of the country, or being enabled to obtain any cattle, whatever, for the supply of the troops, so effectually had the enemy wasted the country as they retired.
The flesh of a cow or buffalo is also roasted on the new fire and furnishes a sacrificial meal. Near the small town of Kahma in Burma, between Prome and Thayetmyo, certain gases escape from a hollow in the ground and burn with a steady flame during the dry season of the year.
He had expected to be away for three or four weeks and, during that time, would have had to buy provisions for himself, Harry, and the four troopers; and might possibly have occasion for money for other matters. He had not paid the men from the village, for he knew that one of these would willingly accompany him to Prome, to receive payment for them all.
The general's aides-de-camp had a busy time of it, being constantly employed in carrying orders to the towns and villages, in hearing complaints and, in Stanley's case, entering into agreements for the purchase of cattle and grain. When in Prome, he spent a good deal of his spare time with his cousin who, having bought a horse, frequently obtained leave to accompany him on his excursions on duty.
Round, bend after bend, each a splendid delight to the eye till two o'clock we look, and look, loath to leave the deck, though our eyes are sore and appetites keen then lunch, watching the passing scenes and Prome.
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