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Rangoon

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Judge Cotton departed today on the steamer for Madras & left me alone He was a great language acquirer & talked Madrasi and Hindostani to natives & servants. He was forever acquiring new ones, any Burmese word which he obtained the meaning of he placed in his notebooks & when I mentioned a few Chinese names of animals these went down in the same book as well. The last night I took dinner at Smith's at the National Bank with him. During the conversation they told the remarkable story of Cooper, an Englishman captured by some Burma tribe & kept for breeding purposed to raise the standard