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the temple grounds is used for other shrines & temples. At the base of this hill is a colored statutace of a sitting Budda [[sic]] made of white marble 
In the fruit market I saw many mangoes of two sorts, bananas, limes, papayas & much jack fruit. The shade trees in the palace grounds & about town were 2 species of true Acacias & the red flowered bean tree. I have seen great numbers of orange robed priests about the temples & everywhere in town & on the steamers. They look like the Shan priests we saw at Meng-ting. Scores of the Mandalay Burmese came to the river to bath. The women with their children & their clothes to wash. The adults never disrobe completely but wear long gowns. They were