Excerpt from The White Elephant: Or, the Hunters of Ava and the King of the Golden Foot While reserving as my own secret the means by which I became possessed of Harry Oliver's autobi ography, I deem it my bounden duty to the kind friends who so warmly received The War Tiger and The wolf-boy of China, to immess upon their minds that Harry's description of notable persons, places, animals, plants, as well as the manners, cus toms, and superstitions of the semi-barbarous Bur mans, is substantially exact, as I myself have verified, by reference to the accounts given by ancient and modern travelers, among whom, for the reader's satisfaction or consultation, I may name, the old merchant Ralph Fitch, the envoys Symes, Crawford, and Yule, the missionaries Saggermano and Judson, and the British officers Cox and Snodgrass. 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.