Excerpt from Legendary History of Burma and Arakan English history, the authorities for which are the equally fable mongering early chronicles. No national traditions are without their meaning, if we could find it, and because we cannot do so at once to dismiss them as utterly useless and false is both unwise and unscholarly. 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.