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My child-life in Burmah : or, Recollections and incidents
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Title:
My child-life in Burmah : or, Recollections and incidents
Collection:
Southeast Asia Visions
Creator:
Bixby, Olive Jennie
Date:
1880
Extent:
178 600dpi JPEG page images
Publisher:
W. G. Corthell
Publication Place:
Boston
Format:
Book
Contents:
Front Matter
"Chapter I. Burmah, First Impressions. - Stay in Rangoon. - Up the Toungoo River."
Chapter II. Home of my Childhood. - The Bazaar. - Pagoda. - Our First House. - Early Converts.
Chapter III. The New House. - Reptiles and Insects. - The Century Palm. - Fruit Trees. - The Banian. - Flowering and Medicinal Plants. - Cultivation of Rice.
Chapter IV. The Animals of Burmah.
Chapter V. Transmigration. - Religious Festivities. - Races and Costumes. - National Peculiarities.
Chapter VI. Heathen Funerals. - The Priesthood. - Buddhism.
Chapter VII. The Seasons. - Glimpses of Missionary Occupations. - The School. - Mountain Travel. - Story of Moung Ong.
Chapter VIII. Travel in Burmah.
Chapter IX. Shway Da Gong. - Mah Mong.
Chapter X. The First Separation. - Boghyee. - Moung See Dee. - The Padoungs.
Chapter XI. Seven Weeks upon the Mountains.
Chapter XII. Last Days in Burmah. - Return to America. - Missionaries' Children.
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