Mandalay to Momien: A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward BSladen and Colonel Horace Browne . London iMacmillau &C?. LondoniJl/icmilULn t (. MANDALAY TO MOMIEN. CHAPTER I. MANDALAY TO BHAMO. Overland trade of Burma and China — Early notices — English tra-vellers— Burmese treaty of 1862—Dr. Williams — Objects of theexpedition — Its constitution — Arrival at Mandalay — Second coro-nation of the king — The suburbs — The bazaars — Mengoon —Burmese navigation — Shienpagah — Coal mines — The third defile — Sacred fish — Tagoung and Old Pagan — Nga
Mandalay to Momien: A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward BSladen and Colonel Horace Browne . London iMacmillau &C?. LondoniJl/icmilULn t (. MANDALAY TO MOMIEN. CHAPTER I. MANDALAY TO BHAMO. Overland trade of Burma and China — Early notices — English tra-vellers— Burmese treaty of 1862—Dr. Williams — Objects of theexpedition — Its constitution — Arrival at Mandalay — Second coro-nation of the king — The suburbs — The bazaars — Mengoon —Burmese navigation — Shienpagah — Coal mines — The third defile — Sacred fish — Tagoung and Old Pagan — Ngajje — Katha —Magnetic battery — The first Kakhyens — The Shuaybaw pagodas — The second defile — View of Bhamo. For some years previous to the date of the expeditionof which the progress is narrated in these pages, theattention of British merchants at home and in Indiahad been directed to the prospect of an overlandtrade with Western China. Most especially did thisinterest the commercial community of Rangoon, thecapital of British Burma, and the port of the greatwater highway of the Iraw^ady, boasting a tradethe annu
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