Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...in the Myingyan township, subdivision, and district. In 1895-96 the population was 1,400, and the thathameda amounted to Rs. 1,834. No land revenue was assessed in the circle. KA-LA-YWA.--A village in the Saiksin circle, Myaing township, Pakfikku subdivision and district, with a population of 580, according to the census of 1891. The thathameda amounted to Rs. 1,440 for 1897-98. KA-LA-YWA.--A village of 280 houses in Myotha township of Sagaing district, 16 miles south-west of Myotha. Ka-la-ywa was the native place of the dacoit leader Ngwe Se, who was captured on the 7th May 1890 and hanged there two months and a day afterwards. The thugyi has a subordinate headman at Satpya-gin (sixty houses), and there are five villages in all under him--the two mentioned and Ywa-thit (fifty houses), Ye-ba-daing (twenty), and Sindat (twenty-five houses). There is a large jheel to the north of the village, which extends for about four miles east and west and is a mile in breadth. In it mayin cultivation is carried on to a large extent. In this circle is the Twingya fishery, which rents at from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,000. KA-LE.--A subdivision in the Upper Chindwin district, comprising the townships of Ka-le and Balet. Balet township was constituted after the annexation of Upper Burma in T, . 1886 and remained unchanged till 1891, when a portion of p' the Ka-le State, on the incorporation of that State with the Upper Chindwin district, comprising the right bank of the river Chindwin between Manlfin in Ka-le township and Maw-laik-kyi in Kindat township, was added to it. The Ka-le township is practically the country which constituted the Ka-le Sawbwnship in 1891, excluding the tract made over to Balet township. The Ka-le subdivision was formerly known as the..
