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He landed at Madras January 1st, 1854. After being detained there several months, he went to live at Bangalore, and paid his first visit to Goobbe on the 16th of April, 1855. He found the old mission-house in a very dilapidated state. It had become the property of Government, and was used as a travellers' bungalow a public rest-house for every traveller passing that way who needed accommodation.
It was a five hours' march, and we crossed the river thirty-two times before we came in sight of the picturesque Durumsolah, or native rest-house, which is situated at the head of the valley. Hills clothed to their summits with variegated jungle rose above us to an immense but not uniform height, and the scenery looked bolder as we became more enclosed among the mountains.
In Burmese times such roads and bridges as were made were made in the same way by private charity. Nowadays, the British Government takes that in hand, and consequently there is probably more money for rest-house building than is needed. As time goes on, the charity will flow into other lines, no doubt, in addition.
You will find that every well-to-do man has built his pagoda or his monastery, and is called 'school-builder' or 'pagoda-builder. These are the only titles the Burman knows, and they always are given most scrupulously. The builder of a bridge, a well, or a rest-house may also receive the title of 'well-builder, and so on, but such titles are rarely used in common speech.
If we hadn't come up, your bodies, stripped to the skin, would have been thrown up on the river bank to-morrow." The police launch put them ashore near the rest-house where they were staying, and Jim was now sufficiently recovered to be able to walk. "It was a close call that time," he said. "Who held me up?
You will do well, in every case, to ride as far as the bordj, or rest-house, that stands near the entrance of the cleft, since there are about four wearisome miles of level country to be traversed after leaving Metlaoui.
These were run to earth in the station-master's office, and as the party had no idea where to go, we suggested they should come with us to the rest-house. The first person we met there was Dr. Clemow. "Have you got the Sirdar with you?" we asked. He answered that he had brought Paul, the young Montenegrin interpreter, with him.
We moved on, gradually descending, rested at Santa Fé, a rest-house and nothing else, for two or three hours, and then turned north, following an affluent of the Magat River, by an old and poor trail, the new one having been washed out for three hundred yards some two or three miles ahead. And after dark we made Boné, our resting-place for the night. Aritao. Bubud. Dúpax. Start for Campote.
"There is food at the rest-house," Menzies persisted; "but I take it you can find food on your way back, even though since starting we have seen none pass your lips: and that is two days." "It will be yet two days before I feast again: for I drink not save of the spring by which you found me, and I eat no food the taste of which I cannot wash from me in its water."
We passed the night in the small rest-house at Den Pasar which the government maintains for the use of its officials. I have said that we passed the night, mark you; I refuse to toy with the truth to the extent of saying that we slept. Why they call it a rest-house I cannot imagine.
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