PICKET ON THE CHIN HILLS _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THE PALACE, MANDALAY--"CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE" 6 THAYETMYO--MAIL STEAMER LEAVING 26 A PONGHI'S FUNERAL PROCESSION 38 MANDALAY 48 SHWÈTAKYAT PROMONTORY OPPOSITE SAGAING 64 "THE MOAT," MANDALAY, AND NORTH WALL OF FORT DUFFERIN 70 OUTER BAMBOO STOCKADE OF BURMESE FRONTIER VILLAGE 86 CONSULTATION OF VILLAGE HEADMEN WITH CHIEF COMMISSIONER 90 BURMESE DACOITS BEFORE TRIAL-WORST CHARACTERS AND NATIVE POLICE GUARD 110 SAW MÖNG, SAWBWA OF YAWNGHWÈ, AND HIS CONSORT 142 PADAUNG LADIES--SHAN STATES 154 A JUNGLE CAMP IN THE SHAN STATES 166 PAGODAS AT MANG KAO-SHAN STATES 180 GROUP OF RED KARENS 190 SAWLAWI--SAWBWA GANTARAWADI. (RED KARENS) 202 THE EASTERNMOST POINT OF THE BRITISH-INDIAN EMPIRE--REACH OF THE ME KHONG, WHERE OUR BOUNDARY MARCHES WITH FRENCH INDO-CHINA 212 KACHIN WOMEN AND CHILDREN 244 YAWGIN WITH CROSS-BOW (MOUNTAINS NORTH OF MYIT KYINA) 250 KACHIN WOMEN (NORTHERN IRRAWADDY) 250 BHAMO BATTALION DRAWN UP FOR INSPECTION 252 GETTING A DHOOLIE UP AN AWKWARD BIT 268 CLIMBING UP THE STEEP CHIN HILLS (CHIN CAMPAIGN) 268 BARGAINING WITH HAKA CHINS 276 MARCHING INTO THE KLANG KLANG COUNTRY (CHIN-LUSHAI CAMPAIGN) 282 HAKA SLAVE-WOMAN SMOKING A PIPE 284 HAKA BRAVES 284 ON THE CHIN HILLS--ARRANGING PLAN OF ATTACK (CHIN-LUSHAI CAMPAIGN) 288 HAKA CHINS 292 A CHIN "ZU" DRINK 292 IN THE SECOND DEFILE OF THE IRRAWADDY BELOW BHAMO 304 BURMESE LADIES MAKING A CALL 324
MAP OF SHAN STATES 133 MAP OF TRANS-SALWEEN 209 MAP OF BHAMO MONGMIT 234 MAP OF CHIN HILLS, ETC. 253 MAP OF KACHIN HILLS, BHAMO, KATHA 303
On the 20th of December, 1852, Lord Dalhousie issued a proclamation annexing the province of Pegu to the British Dominions. "The Governor-General in Council," he said, "having exacted the reparation he deems sufficient, desires no further conquest in Burma and is willing that hostilities should cease.
"But if the King of Ava shall fail to renew his former relations with the British Government, and if he shall recklessly seek to dispute its quiet possession of the province it has now declared to be its own, the Governor-General in Council will again put forth the power he holds and will visit with full retribution aggressions, which, if they be persisted in, must of necessity lead to the total subversion of the Burman State and to the ruin and exile of the King and his race."