Momein, Burma (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Lieutenant Bower, in his account of Major Sladen’s mission, says that at Momein the salt, which was a government monopoly, was “made up in rolls of one and two viss”..."

"…the city was captured by the Imperial officers in 1873… and Momein fell soon after [10th June]."

"Dr. Anderson confirms the depressing and unhealthy character of the summer climate at Momein, though standing between 5000 and 6000 feet above the sea (p. 41); and Lieutenant Bower’s Commercial Report on Sladen’s Mission notes that the price of pure gold at Momein in 1868 was 13 times its weight in silver (p. 122)."