Chapter I: Front Matter

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BURMAH AND THE BURMESE

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CHARLES THE FIFTH. 2 Vols.

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BURMAH AND THE BURMESE.

In Two Books.

by

KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE,

Editor of “Lepsius’s Discoveries in Egypt and Ethiopia.”

London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. 1853.