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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 104.

104 IIENZADA DISTRICT District to the British advance on Prome during the first Burmese War. In the second War the Burmese troops, on hearing of the occupation of Prome, left their fortifications at Akauktaung, at the extreme northern corner of the present District, and were defeated in an attempt to cross the river. This position was not occupied, however, by the British, and was in time stockaded by the Burmans, who kept the country disturbed till the cutting up of a patrol under a British officer, Major Gardner, who was killed, led to the occupation of Akauktaung. Meanwhile the southern areas were in a still more disturbed state than the northern, in consequence, mainly, of the disbandment of the Burmese police. The rebels, led by one Nga Myat Tun, a hereditary thugyi, made marauding expeditions into Henzada, Bassein, and Ma-ubin, till they were dispersed at Danubyu in the last-named District. Since then, though crime is always heavy, there have been no serious disturbances. The original Hen- zada District comprised a portion of the existing District of Ma-ubin and practically the whole of the present Tharrawaddy District, and its limits have been altered more than once in the past thirty years. The population at the last four enumerations was as follows: (1872) 256,753, (1881) 363,899, (1891) 437,620, and (igoi) Population. 484,558• The principal statistics of area and popu- lation in igoi are given in the following table :- Number o d ci, aS o r V •°• w av _ ro yl~ rooowa vroro;? c y ro a '° Township. g... a p •~i w G.a , •d p ~ 3 o ° LYC U"•tr d N o I E~ w a.`~ a~ay Henzada . 369 1 520 131,698 357 + 11 4,394 Zalun 276 1 362 69,502 252 + 18 18,349 Okpo 694 ••. 436 84,046 121 + 14 21,080 Lemyethna 438 1 354 60,314 138 + 6 18,186 Kanaung . 615 1 428 92,365 150 + 16 23,089 Kyangin . 478 1 243 46,633 98 + 2 12,200 District total 2,870 5 2,343 484,558 169 + 11 97,298 Henzada contains more towns than any other District in Burma, the urban population in igoi being 54,500, which is above i1 per cent. of the total, compared with 7 per cent. for the Irrawaddy Division as a whole. The towns are HENZADA, the head-quarters, ZALUN, KYANGIN, MYANAUNG, and LEMYETHNA. The density of population is very high for Burma. Burmese is the language of V8,ooo of the inhabitants, while Karen is spoken by 44,000. In igoi the Burmans numbered 422,800, or 87 per cent. of the District total. The Talaings have become merged with the Burmans,