ARAKANPAST — PRESENT — FUTURE

A RÉSUMÉ OF

TWO CAMPAIGNS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

By

JOHN OGILVY HAY, J.P.(OLD ARAKAN)

FORMERLY HONORARY MAGISTRATE OF THE TOWN OF AKYAB;

AUTHOR OF

INDO-BURMAH-CHINA RAILWAY CONNECTIONS,

A PRESSING NECESSITY

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCXCII

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WITH THE HIGHEST OONBIDERATION,

BUT WITHOUT PERMISSION,

THE MOST HONOUFLABLE

THE M A R Q U I S O F SALISBURY, K.G., HER MAJWTY'S PR= W I S ~ R m PRINCIP~L SECRETARY OF B T A ~

FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA IN 1874 DURING

THE mBsT CAMPAIGN;

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

V I S C O U N T C R O S S , G.C.B., HER MAJBBTY'S PRINCIPAL SBCRBTARY OF STATE FOR INDIA

DURING TRE SECOND CAMPAIGN;

AND TO

HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST HONOURABLE

THE MARQUIS O F LANSDOWNE, G.C.S.I., VICEROY AND QOVBRNOR-GENBRbL OF INDIA ;

in the confident hope that, by their Lordships' combined action, Arakan will be raised from its present inert and undeveloped con- dition to a atate of progressive prosperity, as the great highway of intercourse between India and Indo-China, and ita port, AKYAB, . become, as it deserves to be, a great Erd~omurd, and the THIRD

GREAT SHIPPING PORT of O U I INDIAN EMPIRE.

OLD ' ARAKAN.

LONDOB, May 1892.