[48] In _taungya_ cultivation, the farmer prepares a piece of forest-land by setting fire to the trees and undergrowth, and fertilizing the ground with the ashes. Rice and vegetables are sown broadcast. Except by careful Chins, the same piece of land is not used again till the forest growth has been renewed. It is a wasteful plan, rightly discouraged. [49] Tiger fence. [50] _Da_, a knife; in this case a Burmese sword. [51] _Paso_, _lôngyi_, skirts worn by Burmese men, the former of ampler size. [52] The Burmese man’s headgear. [53] Local civil officer. [54] In Mandalay, in 1886, a _parvenu_ official was guilty of the same breach of decorum on entering my office. I made no remark at the time, but I mentioned the incident to his friends. The Prime Minister seemed surprised that the earth had not opened and swallowed up that fearful man. The offence was not repeated. [55] Now Sir John Jardine, K.C.I.E., M.P. for Roxburghshire. [56] Elephant driver. [57] Colonel William Cooke, lately Commissary-General in Madras. [58] _Atwin Wun_, one of the classes of Ministers, so called from being nominally employed inside (atwin) the Palace, near the person of the King. [59] As Burma was not under the Madras Government, this arrangement was anomalous and inconvenient; after the war it was abolished. [60] The late Sir Godfrey Clerk, K.C.V.O., C.B. [61] Now Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Inspector- General, Royal Irish Constabulary. [62] Major-General Sir George Pretyman, K.C.M.G., C.B., R.A., whom I met not again till he came to succeed Sir Donald Macleod at May-my̆o, where he spent the last year of his service in command of the Burma Division. [63] _Yôma_, a range of hills; literally, backbone. [64] The Right Honourable Sir Henry Primrose, P.C., K.C.B., C.S.I., I.S.O. [65] The Earl of Cromer, P.C., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., C.I.E. [66] Guardians of the Royal life. [67] Sir Charles Crosthwaite, K.C.S.I. [68] Mr. C. G. Bayne, C.S.I., whose early retirement deprived the Province of an invaluable officer. [69] Sir Alfred Irwin, C.S.I., lately a Judge of the Chief Court. [70] The Myingun Prince was a son of Mindôn Min, who in the year 1867 rebelled against his father. Defeated, he fled to Lower Burma, where he continued to plan mischief. He was deported to India; later, he escaped to French territory, and lived for many years at Saigon. He was long a source of some apprehension to Government, and a likely cause of trouble; but I think for some time he has been regarded as harmless. [71] Messengers. [72] Broad hat made of bamboo. [73] Most of this paragraph is extracted verbatim from my Report on the Administration of Upper Burma in 1886. [74] Administrative Report for 1886 _ut supra_. [75] _Ibid._ [76] A woman’s skirt. [77] The late General Sir Harry Prendergast, V.C., G.C.B.