- Author:
- O'Connor, V. C. Scott (Vincent Clarence Scott)
- Publication Info:
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London:
Hutchinson and co,
1904,
pg 156
Text on page 156
The 'Silken East v
comes. The secret of its birth is still wrapped in the wilderness of mountains which spreads away beyond the confluence to the north and west. Yet it is being slowly wrested from its keepers. One by one the conjectures hazarded by investigators since the dawn of the nineteenth century have been disposed of ; one by one the wild frontier tribes are being reduced to subjection, as the growing peace of Burma frees the Government for exploration and extension towards the north. It cannot be long now before its mystery is pierced. kachin Thirty miles be-
low the confluence the new settlement of Myitkina is laid out on the high right bank of the river. No change can be more significant than the change which the last few years have wrought in the character of Myitkina. A dozen years ago it was the ultima thule of Burma, a military outpost in the heart of the enemy's country. For six months each year it was cut off from nearly all communication. The only approach to it lay by the river, and the river is no a shan princess
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