A Bachelor Girl in Burma

In explanation of the title, I must state that bachelor girls are scarce in Burma. I was sitting one evening in the gymkhana club at Rangoon between two married ladies. We had all three been enlarging on the fascination of the land and the delights of being there, when one of them broke out abruptly, How lucky you are 1Y ou travel about and see it all, and yet you are firee. Mrs. R. and I had to get married to come here IT his is one way of looking at it. For another, see p. 55. This is not a book on Burma. The touching confidence of friends in my ability was shown by repeated queries as to whether I was going to do a book on urma after I had been there two months. There is no oubt, of course, that I could have written a complete and exhaustive accoimt of the people and the land, eluding all the wild tribes of the north, without -knowing a single word of their languages these things Tgcome so much by intuition but I preferred to save the .(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at