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Identifier: kiplingsindia00muns Title: Kipling's India Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Munson, Arley Isabel, 1871- Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 India -- Description and travel Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: The odd river craft first attract theattention. Among steam tugs, rafts, barges, house-boats, and fishing boats, is seen the peculiarly curvedBurmese boat guided by an oarsman who sits in anelaborately carved chair high above the stern; andspeeding before the wind are the little peingaws carryingsails one hundred and thirty feet long. The low-lyingcountry of the Irrawaddy Estuary is soon left behind,and now the hills and woods give to the scene a constantvariety of interest and delight. All along the way, onevery rise of ground, stand the monasteries of the yellow-robed Buddhist monks or dozens of white pagodas withgilded peaks and tinkling bells. It is considered an actof great merit to build a pagoda of whatever size ormaterial; hence the enormous number throughoutBurma. Here and there is a town of considerable sizeor a little village of quaint bamboo houses on stilts,where the rice fields almost dazzle with their vivid greenand where giant palm trees reach upward toward the [ 180 ]

Text Appearing After Image: BENARES Ti) Kims thinking a petuliarry filthy city

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