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Excerpt from Burma: Painted and Described
Proceeding upstream, however, new growths aroused our interest cocoa-nut and toddy palms, tamarinds and mangoes, among which the trimly thatched huts of the Burmans or an occasional pagoda furnished the necessary touch of local colour. Nevertheless the scene was tame, and to myself at least disappointing, until, after a couple of hours' steaming, there suddenly appeared, rosy in the sunshine, the golden dome of the great Shwe Dagon Pagoda, seemingly suspended above the purple haze which still hid Rangoon from sight.
From this moment everything appeared changed, and the freed imagination found possibilities every where. Numerous creeks enter the Rangoon River, leading to regions unexplored and mysterious; from them emerge into the main stream the quaintly shaped boats of the Burmans strange craft, whose graceful lines and richly-carved sterns seem to re¿ect the minds of a people who love beauty and are content to be happy.
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