The Burman

By Sir George Scott,

Book cover of The Burman: His Life and Notions

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Should a Sunday-born man marry a lady born on Wednesday? To bring luck is a house to be built on male, female or neuter foundation posts? George Scott served as Frontier Officer for three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, but his enduring legacy is as a collector and sympathetic chronicler of the old ways in a country ‘where people are small and ghosts are big’.

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