Pha-an
of a purple grot at its base. It has been the theatre
of more agonising scenes than the muddiest and hottest
stream in the provinces, scenes that have won for it
the name of Teegaung—‘ The Brook of Weeping.’ For
it has not been only in time of deluge that Zway-kabyin
has been chosen as a refuge.” In the days of the
conqueror, Alompra, a large number of Karen were
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besieged here by the Siamese, and nearly all of them
are believed to have perished for the want of food and
water. Whence the place is known as Dongyang—
“ The Weeping City.”
Once a year at the harvest season, when all the
Burmese world goes on pilgrimage, the pagoda on the
summit of the range is visited by all in its neighbourhood
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