The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

THE ROMANTIC EAST
CHAPTER I
GOLDEN BURMA
The ideal East Burmese characteristics The Yellow Peril
Annexation Religion Marriage and divorce Burmese
women Costumes A few figures.
IN Ptolemy's map of the world, dating
from the
second century of our era, Burma is marked Chryse
Cherson, "The Golden Peninsula."
Then, as now,
its streams were worked for gold but so little is
;
now won from the alluvial deposits that its ancient
name would no longer be appropriate
if it were not
for its pagodas. These lift their gilded spires all
over the country, and justify not only its Greek
but its Indian title of Souverna Bhumi, "The
Golden Land."
It is
to-day, of all countries open to easy
travelling, the nearest approach to the ideal East,