Excerpt from The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery Through the very heart of the native quarter of Mangadone; dust raised into a misty haze which hung in the air and actually intro duced a light undernote of red into the efiect. Dust, which covered the bare feet of the coolies, the velvet slippers of the Burmese, which en croached everywhere and no one regarded, for presently, just at sundown, shouting water men, carrying large bamboo vessels with great spouts, would come running along the road, casting the splashing water on all sides, and reduce the dry powder to temporary mud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.