Up and Down the Irrawaddi: Or, The Golden Dagon : Being Passages of Adventure in the Burman EmpireRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 317 páginas |
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Página 224 - ... blindness, deafness, leprosy, and hydrophobia. May we be struck with thunderbolts and lightning, and come to sudden death. In the midst of not speaking truth, may I be taken with vomiting clotted black blood, and suddenly die before the assembled people. When I am going by water, may the...
Página 297 - The great dragon succeeded in deceiving— deceiving unto death. " ' How do they say it was done ? A yellow fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the children of God. A white fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the daughter and son of God. " ' They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned his face from them. They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned away from them.
Página 291 - Varellaes great quantity of gold ; for that they be all gilded aloft, and many of them from the top to the bottom : and every ten or twelve years they must be new gilded, because the rain consumeth off the gold : for they stand open abroad.
Página 292 - There are houses very fair round about for the pilgrims to lie in, and many goodly houses for the tallipoies to preach in, which are full of images, both of men and women, which are gilded over with gold.
Página 297 - Tha-nai. How is this said to have happened? The great dragon succeeded in deceiving — deceiving unto death. How do they say it was done ? A yellow fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the children of God ; A white fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the daughter and son of God. They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned his face from them. They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned away from them. They kept not all the words of God — were deceived, deceived unto...
Página 309 - ... may walke in the shade all day. The houses be made of wood, and covered with tiles. The kings house is in the middle of the city, and is walled and ditched round about...
Página 293 - When I first came to this coast the Karens were regarded as the aborigines of the -country, but they were probably in reality the last people to enter it among the various tribes that the British found here when they took possession of the Provinces. " They regard themselves as wanderers from the north, and one of their traditions states that a party of them came across ' the river of running sand ' on an exploring tour, before the Shans were established at Zimmay, and returned again.
Página 61 - Behemoth rose to his feet, contemptuous, indignant, with "too bad" in his eye, impatience in his uplifted trunk, and offended dignity in his short, huffish grunt. But Jehu, patient and busy, picked away at his organ of amativeness with the boat-hook ; there was another small land-slide — and then, with unanimity of extraordinary boosting and hoisting, joined to a great feat of agility on the part of the acrobat, silently apprehensive of the mood of Behemoth, " our Yankee friend" reached the top,...