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Text Appearing After Image:Lontloii John MnrrsTi Altonmrlr Sti»et RANGOON. 451 remembrance of her love, lionsfigures are placed at the foot of allpagoda steps, and round the buildingitself. The four chapels at the foot of thepagoda are adorned by colossal figuresof the sitting Buddha, and in thefarthest recess, in a niche of its own,is a still more TOodlv figure, thethick gilding darkened in manyplaces by the fumes of thousands ofburning tapers and candles. Hun-dreds of Gautamas, large and small,sitting, standing, and reclining, whiteand black, of alabaster, sun-driedclay, or wood, surround and arepropped up on the larger images.High stone altars for the offering ofrice and flowers stand before thelions, interspersed with niche altarsfor burnt - offerings. On the outeredge of the platform are a host ofsmall pagodas, each with its ii;tazanngs, image - houses overflowingwith the gifts of generations ofpilgrims ; figures of Buddha in singlelow stone chapels ; tall posts (calledtaguttdamg), flaunting from whichare
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