Sawbwa

There was the Sawbwa of Keng-tung, forty days 'journey from his capital east and south of Mandalay, and north of Siam; the Sawbwa of Yawnghwe; the Sawbwa of Lawksak; and the Myosa of this state, and the Myosa of that, and their wives.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

The Princess with the green jacket was Sao Nang Wen Tip, wife of the ruler of the Chinese state Keng-hung, and half-sister of the Sawbwa of Keng-tung; her journey to Rangoon took fifty days; and she is well-known in western China and our Shan States as a states-woman and woman of business.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

Among the Kachins each clan is ruled by a Sawbwa, whose office "is hereditary, not to the eldest son, but to the youngest, or, failing sons, to the youngest surviving brother."

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

They were Shans of kindly feature, small and nimble fellows, in neat uniforms — green jackets edged with black and braided with yellow, yellow sashes, and loose dark-blue knickerbockers — the uniform of the Sawbwa of Ganai.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

A pure Burmese himself, the father-in-law of the amiable Sawbwa of Santa, he is believed by the Government of Burma to have been "concerned in all the Kachin risings of 1892-1893."

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

The Sawbwa occupied one chair, his distinguished guest the other, till the chief priest came in, when, with that deep reverence for the cloth which has always characterised me, I rose and gave him mine.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

This Sawbwa is the son-in-law of the ex-Wuntho Sawbwa.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

That famous dacoit, the outlawed Prince of Wuntho — the Wuntho Sawbwa — lives here, an exile sheltered by the Chinese Government.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

The Sawbwa occupied one chair, his distinguished guest the other, till the chief priest came in, when, with that deep reverence for the cloth which has always characterised me, I rose and gave him mine.

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

Shans of kindly feature, small and nimble fellows, in neat uniforms -- green jackets edged with black and braided with yellow, yellow sashes, and loose dark-blue knickerbockers -- the uniform of the Sawbwa of

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891