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dry and brown, dusty and bare.

March 31, 1922 – Friday
We did not get up till 7 this a.m. After dressing
leisurely & breakfasting, we went to the 5-day bazaar
held nearby. I took half a dozen snapshots, my kodak
causing the usual amount of interest, & bought 2
small glass bracelets, one of which I put on my
umbrella & the other I can use for a napkin
ring. Miss D. bought some nails & a couple of bael fruits & 3 limes.
All the gharries here have two ponies; the country
is more rolling than most places I've been.
This is in the dry zone, so cactus and other signs of
lack of water are plentiful; they irrigate from the
lake, however, which is partly natural, but also
artificial. Miss D. worked hard all day packing for her-
self [herself] and the Dudleys; I helped when I could and between
times read several articles in a World's Work and in
"Plain Tales". In the aft. we took another drive, this
time to the right bank of the lake. I laid down a-
while [awhile] in the aft. but didn't sleep. She had most of her
furniture wrapped and tied up, too, so if she moves
the biggest part of her work is done. We put away
most of the dishes after dinner, and fixed up a
lunch for tomorrow. I do not think I'd like to live
here, tho' in some ways it has more possibilities than
Prome, and at least I'd have other white faces to look at
once in a while on account of the English officials
and army officers stationed here. The jail is for junior of-
fenders [offenders] only. The reason there are so few good Burmese
carpenters, they say, is because it is looked down upon
as a jail trade, it being one of the chief things taught
there. You usually have to get a Chinaman.