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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal April 1837

1837

or Mounyen and several others in the service of the noblemen of the court had accompanied the expedition from Ava with the view of proceeding to the Kyouk Tsein. or Serpentine mines near the sources of the Urd river west of the Irawadi.. [...] The smallest boat in the fleet was an hour and a half getting over the first of these obstacles and the Sh5.n boatmen who are thoroughly aquainted with the 'character of the river pull their boats close to the rocky points and then using all their strength shoot across to the oposite side before the force of the stream had time to throw them on the rocks." The Burmah boatmen adopted t [...] The Shim inhabitants of the town were employed by the Burmese officers to enforce this excessive payment of tribute from the Singphos and Kakhyens of the surrounding hills which had led to much on the part of the latter by whom they are stigmtised " as the dogs of the Burmans." " The town of Mogaung " says Captain HANAY " is situated at the junction of the Namyeen or Namyang and the Mogaun [...] From that period the exactions of the Burmese officers have led to extesive emigration and to avoid the oppression to which they were hourly exposed the Shins-have sought an asylum in the remote glens and valleys on the banks of the Kkyendwen and the Singphos among the recesses of the mountains at the eastern extremity of the valley. [...] Of the mineral productions of the Hdkong valley enumerated by Captain HANNAY the principal are salt gold and amber: the former he informs us is procured both on the north and south sides of the valley and the waters of the Namtworikok and Edt rivers are quite brackish from the numerous salt springs in their beds.—Gold is found in most of the rivers both in grains and in pieces the size of
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Pages
88
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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I.—Abstract of the Journal of a Route Travelled by Capt. S.F. Hannay. of the 40th Regiment Native Infantry from the Capital of Ava to the Amber Mines of the Húkong Valley on the South-East Frontier of Assam. By Capt. R. Boileau Pemberton 44th Regt. N.I.
245-278 James Prinsep view
II.—Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions. By Jas. Prinsep Sec. &c.
278-288 James Prinsep view
III.—Specimens of Hindu Coins Descended from the Parthian Type and of the Ancient Coins of Ceylon. By James Prinsep Sec. As. soc
288-302 James Prinsep view
IV.—On the Revolution of the Seasons (Continued from Vol. IV. p. 257.) By the Rev. R. Everest
303-308 James Prinsep view
V.—On the Climate of Darjiling
308-315 James Prinsep view
VI.—Note on the Genera Oxygyrus and Bellerophon. By W.H. Benson Esq. B.C.S.
316-317 James Prinsep view
VII.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
317-323 James Prinsep view
VIII.—Meteorological Register
324-324 James Prinsep view

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