Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 139

• December 3, 2016 00:44:09 Sue Bryant

  Sat May 23

   

  As Mandalay is now in bounds I will

  try to discribe what I have seen there. As

  usual it is very much like all the town here

  as far a dirt & smell are concerned. The town

  in itself is not a bad place & have been

  very much modernized, there are electric trams

  & electric lights in the street. There is here

  also a very large Bazaar one of the largest

  I have seen yet, I think inside it seems to

  contain hundreds of small shops where you

  seem to be able to buy almost anything.

  but the chief thing I think in Mandalay is

  what is called the Harrigan Pagoda this is

  truly a marvelous building but is hardly

  worth discribing  as inside it is just like

  all the Rest, just one small place with a

  God in the centre. Outside this Place is a

  very large Lake in which are thousands of

  fish of all kinds. There are also natives who

  give you small dishes filled with Rice &

  then after you have given this to the

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