WHEN WE WERE
STROLLING PLAYERS IN THE EAST
MRS. MILN AS DESDEMONA. Frontispiece.
WHEN WE WERE
STROLLING PLAYERS
IN THE EAST
BY
LOUISE JORDAN MILN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE
1896
TO MY FATHER
WHOSE LOVE NEVER FAILED ME
AND WHO NEVER MISUNDERSTOOD ME
I dedicate this Volume
In connection with this volume I have several words ofthanks to write.
My first and best thanks are due to the editors of thePall Mall Gazette and of the Pall Mall Budget. Theirkindness has enabled me to reprint here several articlesthat have previously appeared in one or both of theirpapers. And to the generosity of the editor of the PallMall Budget I owe five of the illustrations appearing here.
“Oriental Nuptials” have appeared in The Lady, theeditor of which paper kindly allows me to here use them.
Messrs. Bourne and Shepherd of Calcutta havegenerously granted me permission to reproduce three oftheir copyrighted photographs.
Messrs. Skeen of Colombo have kindly permitted meto use two of their copyrighted views of Ceylon.
Several of the Burmese photographs have been collectedfor me in Burmah, and sent me by William Miller,Esq., of Rangoon. I am peculiarly obliged to Mr. Miller,because he found time in the press of grave official dutiesto take so much trouble for one who had not then thepleasure of his acquaintance.
L. J. M.
London, 31st May 1894.