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MONG PAI (called Mobye by the Burmese)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . It has an approximate See also:area of loon sq. m., and a See also:population (1901) of 19,351 . The See also:general See also:character of the See also:country is hilly, rising westwards in a See also:gentle slope from the See also: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 . 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 See also:early in 1887 on the first arrival of British troops . He abdicated in favour of his son in 189o, and died a few years later .

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