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MONG PAI (called Mobye by the Burmese) , the most See also: south-See also: westerly of the See also: British Shan States of See also: Burma
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It has an approximate See also: area of loon sq. m., and a population (1901) of 19,351
.
The general character of the country is hilly, rising westwards in a gentle slope from the chief stream, the Nam Hpilu or Balu
.
This is navigable for native boats throughout the See also: year to the point where it sinks underground in See also: Karen-ni
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The chief cultivation is See also: rice, with about two acres of dry or See also: hill rice to one of wet bottom
.
The hill
See also: fields are See also: left See also: fallow for ten years after two years' cultivation
.
The chief, the Sawbwa Hkun See also: Yon, held See also: charge through the reigns of four Burmese See also: kings, and submitted early in 1887 on the first arrival of British troops
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He abdicated in favour of his son in 189o, and died a few years later
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