Moulmein

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

George Orwell and Night Jack Jack of Kent 2009

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Archive 2009-06-01 Jack of Kent 2009

While the chronology is vague - the account seems to have been put together from a number of visits made over a period of several years - the geography is exact, following the route marked by Orwell's postings in Mandalay, the southern Delta, the capital Rangoon, Moulmein and finally Katha, which

Review of Emma Larkin's "Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop" 2004

A goat-like animal is found in Sumatra which has its representative in India; while the two-horned rhinoceros of Sumatra and the single-horned species of Java, long supposed to be peculiar to these islands, are now both ascertained to exist in Burma, Pegu, and Moulmein.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Shooting an Elephant 2002

And he just followed the old family tradition and went to Burma, where his grandparents had a teakwood business in Moulmein, a shipbuilding business.

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation 2001

'As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later,' from Marrakech or 'In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people -- the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me' from Shooting an Elephant.

Orwell and Patriotism 1992

For I see the pagoda, the Moulmein and essentially wotto pagoda,

Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses

He had been almost as great a traveller as his countryman the famous Sheikh Ebn Batuta, whose wanderings are immortalized in the pages of Maga, [10] and came last from Moulmein, with a cargo of black pepper and rubies.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

Mr. Theobald has ascertained the existence of Triassic, Cretaceous, and Nummulitic rocks in the Arabian coast range; and Carboniferous limestone is known to occur from Moulmein southward, while the range east of the Irrawadi is formed of younger Tertiary rocks.

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot