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five or nix days 1 inarch beyond Bhamo ; but hitherto ail attempts to 

 establish a regular trade between India and youth-west China by this 

 route have ended in failure. More success may attend these efforts 

 as boob na Upper Burmah is pacified, and the intervening Kachyen 

 border tribes reduced* But Col. Woodthorpe * expedition to the 

 Kliiimti country seems to show that the best and moat direct trade 

 routes 1 Kit ween the two empire* will still be found to lie further 

 north, tlutt is from East Assam over the Patkai range directly to 

 tin- iind ]" i[iul> nj-* [ir-'viTH-L- "I Se-Chneu. 



The trade of Lower Burmah, which ha* ita chief nutlets in the 

 ports of Eassem, Rangun, nnd Mi ml main, baa acquired great expan- 

 sion in recent yearn. Through the** pnrtn large quantities of British 

 and Indian ware?* are introduced ink* the Irawaddy basin, and thence 

 widely distributed throughout llio peninsula. The chief articles 

 takvn in exchange are rice aud timber (iron wood, teak, and other 

 valuable woods). But to these staples « f the expi.nl trade will soon 

 pri.L.LliTy lie added Ilia |M?tndcniii, rubies, jade, cottons, and other 

 produce of Upper Burundi. 



Geographical and Political Bivlaiona.— For (he geographical 

 and administrative divisions of the late kingdom of Burundi our 

 chief source of information is still Captain (now Colonel) Henry 

 Yule's account of the British Mi&rion of 1&5& to the court of Ava. 

 Tliere are also extant two historical documents of great, interest— ' an 

 inscription preserved in a temple near Ava, and another inscribed 

 on ttie great bell at BftDg&n, the former giving a complete list of the 

 nine royal provinces with their several districts or territories as in 

 16f>0, the latter a "I i « t of the t-ixtttn provinces: with nil their sub- 

 il i v i -ii u»-s in lTTCi ; that is, after the marit ime districts of Tavoy and 

 Tenasserim had been added to the empire by Ahunpra, Col. Yule, 

 wlnt re] i rviii [<-r> tijL- A vii dor in tiunt, enumerates as under the more 

 iinprirtant n-rrit^Hul division- on the right or we*t *u\k of the 

 lrawuddy basin ; — 



Hu-Khoiig, a rich valley about the upper course of the Kyen- 

 dwen at the southern foot of the hilla lowartls the Assam frontier. 

 Here are some amber mines ; natives chiefly Kschyena, a branch of 

 the Singpo family. 



MtKjuinj, with a river and ancient city of like name, in the 

 extreme north-west, beyond Bhamft, between 2fr— 2C* N. hit This 

 is the Afojtffmaoroiiff of t he Chinese, pei ipted by the Kubo (Shan) tribe. 



Miiihuhi) Ainu Myo^ suid liihura, di-triets between the Ira- 

 waddy nod the lower' K.Yen-dwcn t due uv.4 and south-wesl or 

 Mandaiay, 



