À pied et en mer en Birmanie . nd coups produisent les re-sultie, et les charrettes craquement sourds, l'onegoing la banque vers le bas sur le côté du bas^er road, et l'autre dans le drain sur lavis. Bientôt tout est à nouveau stable craquement,et le pilote peut s'installer pour anothergood pan. Peut-être que la voiture à moteur portant le mailsdisturbs à côté de lui ; et il doit être carefulthis temps de peur que la corne qui warnshim hurlante de son approche, et le bruit d'themachinery, effrayer ses boeufs, l'envoi d'themscampering sur le côté de la route, maybeupsetting le panier, et retarder lui avec abroken essieu ou som

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Afoot and afloat in Burma . nd beating produce the desired re-sult, and the carts creak past each other, onegoing down the bank on the low^er side ofthe road, and the other into the drain on theupper. Soon all is steady creaking again, and the driver can settle down for anothergood nap. Perhaps the motor car carrying the mailsdisturbs him next; and he must be carefulthis time lest the shrieking horn which warnshim of its approach, and the noise of themachinery, frighten his oxen, sending themscampering over the side of the road, maybeupsetting the cart, and delaying him with abroken axle or some other mishap of thatdescription. If any accident like this shouldoccur, then he and his friends will haveto draw in by the side of the road, andbetween them repair the damage. Little more than ten miles is covered ina day; so the coming of the railway meansthat a journey that formerly took a week, can now be completed in a few hours. Onbeyond, the road stretches for some hundredsof miles, not so well made as nearer in, but. By Train and Caravan 209 well enough for the heavy carts and the cat-tle to pick their way over; and we learn thatit is some twenty-four or more halts, ordays journeys, to one far-ofif town, whicheven then is a long way from the borderline. Ofif to the south of the caravan road inthe southern Shan States, not far from wherethe railway now reaches, is a great lake, which is very interesting by reason of whatare called the floating islands. These seemto be great masses of vegetation all mattedand twisted together, that drift about on thesurface of the water. Local legends have itthat much wealth lies hidden in these places, protected by the spirits of the air, whichwould instantly pounce on any mortal whomight make bold enough to search for thetreasure. It is said to have been a custom here tobury half of a mans wealth with his body, and as the method of burying consists in fas-tening the dead bodies to the bottom of thelake with stakes, it is at once easy to un