---

Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 18, p. 147.

NYZTNGE' i47 population of the township, excluding the first two of these tracts, was 17,560 in rgoi ; that of the Sadon tract being 14,012, and that of the Sima tract 7,273. The Myitkyina Hill Tract was not formed till 1904. In the plains, Shans, Burmans, and Kachins are represented in the ratios of 7, 3, and 1 approximately ; elsewhere the inhabitants are practically all Kachins. In 19o1 the subdivision contained 582 villages, of which 477 were in the Kachin Hill Tracts as then constituted. In 1903-4 the area cultivated was 16 square miles, in addition to taungyas. The land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 46,ooo. Myitkyina Town,-Head-quarters of the District of the same name in Upper Burma, situated in 2,5' 23' N. and 97' 24' E., on a level plain surrounded by hills on the western bank of the Irra- Nvaddy, and at the terminus of the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway, 724 miles from Rangoon. Population (1901), 3,618. The station has risen to importance only since the British occupation. Prior to 1892 it was a small Shan-Burmese village, its name denoting the fact that it was near to the banks of the great river, the Irrawaddy; and even now the military police and the officials form more than a fourth of the inhabitants. The town was attacked by a party of Sana Kachins in December, 1892, when the military police subahddr-major was killed and the subdivisional officer's courthouse and residence were burnt; but since then its history has not been marked by any stirring incidents. Myitkyina is increasing in importance as an ex- change for Chinese traders, who bring large quantities of opium, and take away india-rubber and jade and foreign commodities brought up by rail. Details of the frontier trade, which converges almost entirely at Myitkyina, are given in the District article. The town contains a bazar and the usual public buildings. Myitmaka---River of Lower Burma. See RANGOON R1vi;R. Myitnge (or Doktawaddy).-River of Burma, one of the principal tributaries of the Irrawaddy. It rises in about 23° 18' N. and 98° 23' E., in the Northern Shan State of North Hsenwi, where it is known as the Nam Tu. Its course is in the main south-westerly, and first passes through the States of North Hsenwi, Tawngpeng, and Hsipaw, the first and last of which have their chief towns on its banks. For the latter half of its course of 130 miles the river forms the boundary, first between the States of Hsipaw and Lawksawk, and next between the Districts of Mandalay and Kyaukse. It falls eventually into the Irrawaddy about 12 miles south of Mandalay, immediately opposite the town of Sagaing. 1'he Myitnge is navi- gable only up to the point at which it reaches the plains. The Rangoon -Mandalay Railway crosses it near its mouth, and it will shortly be bridged at Hsipaw. The principal tributary is the Nam