A HOT STATION.
The wife of an artillery officer lately sent to Shyet Myo, in Burmah describes the climate by narrating an incident which sounds like a hint for Baron Alunchausen or Jules Verne, but is gravely told as a fact in natural history: —“ A friend gave my husband some •owl’s eggs, which he left in a plate in the drawing-room, the coolest place in the house, being in the centre and surrounded by other rooms. The eggs were on a table in the corner of the ■room, and were forgotten. Some days ■after, I was sitting there working, and hearing an extraordinary noise, looked round to see what it could be. It came from the plate in the corner, and a. saw one of the eggs moving, and slightly chipped. Presently out came a little owlet! The other egg followed suit, till they were all hatched. It does seem ludicrous, and impossible to anyone who has not lived in such a climate, where the thermometer at the time I write is never under 100 deg., and generally 105 deg.”— Leisure Hour.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1011, 13 December 1881, Page 4
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182A HOT STATION. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1011, 13 December 1881, Page 4
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