Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Մաս 2,Հատոր 1superintendent, Government printing, Burma, 1901 |
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Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Մաս 2,Հատոր 1 John Percy Hardiman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1901 |
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1892 it contained Amarapura bazaar Bhamo Bhamo district buffaloes bullocks Burma Burmese census of 1891 chaung Chin Hills Chindwin river Chinese east longitude feet headman Hkam houses Hsang Hsi Paw Hsö Hsum Hsai Hukawng valley hundred inhabitants Irrawaddy Ka-le Kachin village Kang Karen-ni Katha Kawng Keng Kengtung King land revenue latitude and 97 Lepai tribe Magwe Mandalay district Maung miles from Ye-u Mogaung Möng Möng Nai Myaing Myaing township Myelat Myingyan Myitkyina district Myoza Nawng North Hsen north latitude Northern Shan pagoda Pakôkku district Pakokku subdivision Palaung Pawng reigned revenue circle revenue was collected rice river rupees Sagaing district Salween Sawbwa Shan village Shwebo district South Hsen Wi square miles stream subdivision and district subdivision of Mandalay subdivision of Pakôkku subdivision of Shwebo taungya Tawng thathameda amounted thathameda revenue town township and subdivision trade Upper Chindwin district valley village in Tract Wuntho Ye-u subdivision
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Էջ 312 - I have stated that _. about one-third of the inhabitants are slaves, on which '. ° subject I deem it necessary to offer the following explanation: — " The chief cause of this amount of slavery, a term by the way only partially expressing the conditions of the subject, lies in the prevalence of indebtedness throughout the community. Incurred originally by the heads of families to meet some casual expenditure attending their superstitious ceremonies, the debt, increased by an enormous interest,...
Էջ 1 - Thus constant use, instead of spoiling the road, improved it ; and it is only owing to the stagnation of commerce during the last two years, and the consequent encroachment and ravages of the monsoon, that any part of the route was bad ; for as the communication is closed between May and January, the havoc committed during that period must be annually...
Էջ 312 - ... such cases, where no effects are available for repayment, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, one or more members of the family become bond-slaves, and subsequently from incapacity to liquidate the original debt with its large...
Էջ 1 - ... but also on those who carried it into execution. The labour bestowed upon it has been immense, as for nearly twenty miles the road is cut out of the hill-side, to the width of between ten and twelve feet, and that with the most judicious attention to the different falls of the ground : the remains of a parapet formed of trunks of trees are visible in many places ; and it would be very advantageous if something of the kind still existed, the precipices off the road being most terrific, and of...
Էջ 313 - VV. mountain ranges — all doomed to a hopeless state of slavery, into which, priced like beasts of burden, they are sold to the Toons or Zimmay Shans to the number of from 2 to 3000, annually. An instance of the wholesale seizure of villages of...
Էջ 86 - It will furnish an outlet lor the products of a large tract of country five hundred square miles in extent, rapidly being opened and settled. The Big Manistee river, which empties into Manistee lake, and from thence into Lake Michigan, is navigable for small boats for a distance of one hundred and .fifty miles from its mouth, but navigation on it is almost entirely obstructed by logs being floated down to the mills. I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, Abstract of contracts for improving...
Էջ 240 - N., and long. 96° E., and close to the Assam border. It is found with small masses of lignite (which furnish the indication in seeking for it) in a dark carbonaceous earth covered with red clay. It is extracted from square pits, reaching sometimes to a depth of forty feet, and so narrow that the workmen ascend and descend by placing their feet in holes made on two sides of the pit, no sheeting being used. Mr. Walton mentions that the Hukong valley, occupied by the Singpho, is a tract of small hillocks,...
Էջ 1 - It was principally to further this intercouse that the late King of Ava, Minderajee Prah, caused this superb road to be made : a work which reflects the greatest credit, not only on the liberal mind of him who planned, but also on those who carried...
Էջ 312 - The other far more iniquitous and remorseless state of slavery in its worst features which prevails with this race has its existence in their kidnapping propensities ; no one single individual...
Էջ 313 - ... are not debarred from other pursuits from which to derive a means of eventual emancipation ; but this is of rare occurrence, and the state of indebtedness has become an integral portion of their social system, as well as of that of Upper Burmah, the Shan States, Siam, and Cambodia.