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Updated: May 2, 2025
And, had I not arrived when I did, they could not have been sent till after the rains. A coolie will carry eighty pounds weight from Bhamo to Tali for 12s.; and I need hardly point out that a very small transaction in teak would cover the cost of many coolies. Besides, any expenditure incurred would have been reimbursed by the Inland Mission.
No places, those, for strong men to live alone in, where night-breezes whisper through forgotten passages and dry teak planking recreaks to the memory of dead men's footsteps. But strong men are not the only makings of an Empire, nor yet the only sufferers.
His art and social connections brought it about. They were beginning excellently well. If she could have as nice a home when she started on her married career she would be satisfied. They sat down about the round teak table which was one of Dexter's prized possessions, and were served by Angela's borrowed maid.
The sea of vegetation closed around Badshah and submerged him, as he turned off a footpath and plunged into the dense undergrowth. The trees were mostly straight-stemmed giants of teak, branchless for some distance from the ground. Each strove to thrust its head above the others through the leafy canopy overhead, fighting for its share of the life-giving sunlight.
"You leave it to me, and when you come home from a happy outing I 'ope to be able to cross your little hand with three 'undred golden quids." "But why not tell me?" urged Mr. Teak. "'Cos I want to surprise you," was the reply. "But mind, whatever you do, don't let your wife run away with the idea that I've been mixed up in it at all.
He proposes to force into this trough very tightly pieces of teak, and to the teak, thus embedded, he nails a sheathing of zinc. The zinc is kept clean by slowly wearing away of its surface from action by contact with the iron and salt water. There are four patents, in which various, so-called, non-conducting coats are put on the iron, and copper pigment in some form put on over them.
She and Scott danced nearly all the dances together, and sat out the rest in the big dark gallery overlooking the superb teak floor, where the uniforms blazed, and the spurs clinked, and the new frocks and four hundred dancers went round and round till the draped flags on the pillars flapped and bellied to the whirl of it.
The bodies are of teak, ebony, or ironwood, with seats of marble, and with a disk of marble in the back. In the sacristy is the safe in which Serra used to keep the sacred vessels, as well as the important papers connected with his office. It is an interesting object, sheeted with iron, wrapped around with iron bands and covered all over with bosses. It is about three feet wide and four feet high.
There were six native clerks occupied with the sale of this nostrum. I deposited my half rupee for six doses I'd have taken a ton with hope some years ago. Then Mr B. showed us his teak logs tethered alongside the banks, waiting for high water to take them on their road south. Some logs are said to take nine years to come down from the upper reaches to Rangoon.
They have high sterns elaborately carved, and the red teak wood and the brown bodies of the rowers pushing long oars glow in the halo of soft light; other figures resting on their decks are wrapped up in rose and white and green draperies, and each soft colour is reflected quivering in the ripple from the oars.
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