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made of the powdered wood of a small tree. Pieces of this wood they all carry with them. The odor is pungent & the yellow color hideous on their light yellow complexions.
[[boxed left]] 23 [[/boxed left]] Daylight found us on our way up [[strikethrough]] Bassem [[/strikethrough]] Rangoon Creek with a favorable tide. The creek is a short cut to the Rangoon River which we reached at 8 A.M. Paddy fields under water bordered the river on either side miles [[strikethrough]] As in [[/strikethrough]] broken near the shore by thickets of sprouting coco palms.
At five miles we could see distinctly the [[/strikethrough]] di [[strikethrough]] gold spire of the Shwe Dagon rising from a small hill above Rangoon. The River approaching the 

Transcription Notes:
Shwedagon is a Buddhist pagoda in Rangoon