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Story of an Emigrant.
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clear the way to education and liberty for her unfortunate
sisters!
Besides my report on wheat culture I sent numerous
official reports to our government on different industries, and
other matters in India, such as tea culture, the decline of
American shipping in Asia, the railroads, the population of
India, our commercial relations with India, etc. These
reports attracted such attention in Washington that during
the month of February, 1883, I received orders from the
state department to make a tour of inspection to those
provinces and cities which belonged to ray district and
report to the government anything of national interest.
Shortly after receiving this order, which was accompanied
by a leave of absence for six months, I also received a
cablegram from Holland offering me the position of managing
American director of the Maxwell Land Grant Company in
New Mexico, whereof more hereafter.
On the 12tli of April I turned over all my official affairs to
the vice-consul, Mr. C. C. Bancroft, and took the steamer
Raipatoonahfor Burmah, where I visited the most important
seaports, Rangoon, Mulmain, and Akjab. Buddhism is there
the prevailing religion, and the caste system, such as is found
among the Hindoos, is unknown. The people are more
prosperous. The city of Rangoon has, among other
notable objects, a celebrated Buddhist pagoda, the great dome of
which is covered with solid gold plate. The pagoda is
situated on a high elevation above the city, and the dome is
one of the most notable and costly works of architecture in
the world. It is visible at a great distance out on the ocean,
and when the tropical sun throws its rays on it, it looks like
a flame offire, whose splendor is too dazzling for the eyes to
endure.
At a dinner party arranged for me by the American
consul at Rangoon, I met many of the prominent men in this
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