A BURMESE "CARRIAGE AND PAIR.

The following images are from the book "King's Empire" published in 2 volumes the early 1900s. The photographs were taken at the height of the British Empire. The books are available in higher resolution for download as PDF ebooks at www.ozebook.com

A BURMESE "CARRIAGE AND PAIR. The Empire can furnish many more costly and more convenient equipages than that here represented, but we should have to go far afield to find one more picturesque or more characteristic of the land in which it is used. The heavy wooden wheels of the ox cart are encrusted with the deep mud of the dampest and muddiest of our possessions. The gracefully shaped awning which protrudes in front of the cart tells of a land where the sun is the enemy. The easy-going oxen and the pleasant-mannered Burmans in their cart are typical of a some-what lazy land, where the means of living are obtained with slight exertion, and where infinite time is left for leisure. (Page 9.)