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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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. CONQUEST. PACIFICATION. 1 CHAPTER I. THE CONQUEST. Burma and its resources--Its situation between India and China--Advantages which it offers to a European nation--Causes which led to its annexation by Great Britain--Rapidity of its conquest. Burma, even at the present day, is but imperfectly known. According to the census taken in 1891 under the direction of Mr. Eales, its population numbers about 8 millions; namely, \ millions in Lower Burma, 3 J millions in Upper Burma, and 376,000 in the Shan states. But these figures still leave room for much uncertainty; the fact being that, in spite of the sea and the mountain 1 The following essay has been greatly facilitated by the extreme kindness of Lord Lytton, and Lord Dufchains which form its natural frontiers, the boundaries of Burma are not yet definitely fixed. As a permanent result of the events of 1885, Burma (without distinctive epithet) comprises four subdivisions. One, the southern portion, was formerly known as British Burma; the other three formed the independent Kingdom of Burma, and consisted of, in the centre, Burma proper, inhabited chiefly by Burmese, and by the descendants of aboriginal races; to the north and north-west, Northern Burma, inhabited by various and sparsely scattered races, called Singphos, Shans, etc., more or less subject to Burmese rule; and lastly, to the east and north-east, in the direction of Siam and Cambodia, the tributary states peopled by races called Laotians or Shans. 1 These States, both from their territory and their population, are of fering, of Mr. Austin Lee of the British Embassy at Paris, of Mr. Herbert of the India Office, of M. Harmand, Minister Plenipotentiary, who was for a long while Consul General for France at Calcutta, and...