lis 



k AST]-: UN .fjiurii y. 



or u Upper Burundi," has ceaied to Iijivb any value, arid on the 

 latest maps tlio red tine marking off British tcrritorj' runs frotn 

 Asuam along tho western and south-western frontiers of Yunnan 

 eastwards nearly to Tonkin, aud thence along the northern and 

 western frontiers of Siani southwards to the Malay Peninsula, The 

 ivgiuM enclosed between this v.iyi wetja-cinda and the Imtbiri Ocean 

 com pri ses 1 I 1 n; e d is t i i ict physical di visions — Burundi proper, enibraein g 

 nearly the whole of the Irnwnddy and the greater purt of the Sal win 

 basin ; Arakan, Itetwcen Iturmali proper and the Bay of Bengal ; 

 Tenassenm, between Siiuu and the same waters. 



Bt RiiAH Proper, 



Physical Features, — In this division must now be included 

 both UVWBR Buruau, that i% the recently annexed native State, and 

 Lower Burma if , that is, the district of Peuu, hitherto comprised 

 with Arakay and Teyasserim in the province of British Burinnh. 

 Between Upper and Lower Burmah there are no natural frontiers, 

 and since the assimilation of the Tabling inhabitants of Pegu to the 

 llurtm-M! in sjums Il and physical appearance, Wli furm in all respects 

 a perfectly homogeneous region, rupionslv watrml l.y the great river- 

 Imwaddy, Siltimg, and S.ilwiu, and I r.iv. -r-rd hy the parallel Arakan 

 Yuma, Pegu Yomo, and Shim Yuma range?* 



Towards the north and north -West it in limited by the rugged and 

 still little known Patkai highlands, separating it in this direction 

 from the Brahmaputra basin. Nominally JJuruiali in here conter- 

 minous with the British province of Assam. But with the exception 

 of the somewhat settled territory of Munipur, the intervening hills 

 are mainly occupied by the Na^ns, Lushuift, Singpos, Khnmtis 

 (Kanipti*), and other unreduced wild tribes or semi civilised peoples 

 not yet inewplfieated in the Anglo-Indian empire. The Patkai range 

 was recently crossed by Cub W .llhorpe, who reached the settle- 

 ments of the friendly Bor Khamtis on the western branch of tlie 

 Imwaddy, after traversing sonte districts exposed to the constant raids 

 (d the unruly Singpo tribe. In the territory of the peaceful Kun- 

 nungs silver inine.n occur, which supply oil the surrounding pcoplen 

 with coin and ornaments. But just an the Khamti traders suffer 

 from the attacks of the Singpos T the Kunming communities ore often 

 plundered by the neighbouring Sinjjlengs, who carry off the captives 

 and sell them as slaves to the Tibetans. Near the village of Langdao 

 the Imwaddy, here crossed by OoL Woodthorpe^ was found to be 

 only eighty- live yarda broad and not very deep. 



