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Editor?s note:
This article by Francis Hamilton, also known as Francis Buchanan, first appeared in The
Edinburgh Journal of Science (vol. 3, April-October, 1825, pp. 32-44). Despite its relatively late
dating, Hamilton?s understanding of the area and the people were not substantially different
from those found in the his earlier diaries during his travels in the area in 1798.
M.W. C. ... "...The river called Naaf by Europeans, which enters the sea in about 20? 50? north, for a short way
forms the boundary between Ava and Bengal; and across it is the only communication known
between the kingdom of Arakan subject to Ava and Chatigang subject to Britain. North from the
forks of this river, so far as I could learn in 1798, there was no district boundary; but there
extends north, along the whole of the Chatigang district, a mountainous frontier occupied by
several rude tribes. Through this region flow many rivers; some into the sea, either through
Chatigang or Arakan, and some into the Erawadi; and the high land at the sources of such of
these rivers as run through the district of Chatigang was commonly supposed to be the actual
boundary. The rude tribes indeed, which occupy the hilly countries on both sides of the central
eight, claim independence, and support it, so far as their slender means will admit..."
ရင်းမြစ်:
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2003
Date of Publication:
1825-00-00
Date of entry:
2004-04-09
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English