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Excerpt from Burma, Vol. 1: A Note on the Palaungs of Hsipaw and Tawngpeng
The Palaungs are a Mongolian hill community, inhabiting Habitat. The uplands oi the Shan States and of a portion of the n0rth-east of Upper Burma. Palaung villages are found in the Southern Shan States as far south as Kengtung and Palaungs form part of the population of Bhamo and the Ruby Mines district proper, but the essentially Palaung country, where the great bulk of the race live and where they form a salient section of the community, lies in the Northern Shan States of Hsipaw, Tawngpeng, North and South Hsenwi, and Mongmit and may be said to form a parallelogram lying on the irrawaddy-salween watershed between 22 30' and 23 30' N. And 96 30' and 97 30' E. Much of the following note may be taken as applicable to the people as a whole, but it should be clearly borne in mind at the very outset that it is intended to refer in its entirety only to the Palaungs of the States of Hsipaw and Tawngpeng, who occupy the central and south-western portions of the parallelogram aforesaid.
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