The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

CHAPTER VI
BHAMO AND THE IRAWADI
The road to China The races of Upper Burma Chins Shans
Kachins Palaungs The river The defiles The road to
the Ruby Mines The Mingon bell and pagoda Petroleum.
BHAMO, the ancient capital of the Shan state of
Manmaw stretches along the left, or east, bank of
the Irawadi for four miles. It contains a mixed
population of Kachins, Burmans, Shans, and Chinese,
numbering over 10,000 in 1901, and its population
and trade are rapidly increasing owing to its favourable
position as the nearest mart on the Irawadi to
the Chinese frontier.
Three miles above Bhamo the Taping river enters
the Irawadi,
Taping valley
and the road into China goes up the
about 125 miles to Momien
(Tengyueh-ting),
where the road from Myitkyina joins.
From Bhamo, which the Chinese call Tsingai, by
way of Momien and Ta Li Fu (the Carajan of
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