BASRA

[s. 90] : Capital of a province of the same name, adjoining the Persian Gulf at the S._ h. extremity of Asiatic Turkey. The city is situwith ated on the Euphrates below its junction is a the Tigris, and is quite unhealthful. It opened station of the RCA (Arabian Mi ion) them It now has 4 mi ionaries, two of in 1891. married and one of them a physician, 2 out Otherwise written stations and 1 dispensary. Busrah and Bu ora. BASSA. See Geeat Ba a. BASSE IN The southwestern district of Burma, of extending from the western Yoma range mountains on the west to the mam stream of east, the Irawadi and its principal outlet on the and from the Bay of Bengal on the south to the point on the north where the Yomas approach,: nearest to the great river. It includes four or Basel BvanfTPllcal Uattleford 73 branches of the Irawadi. The soil is rich and Area, 6,848 square miles. The population fertile, the subject to floods. somewhat exceeds 475,000, of which about 175,000 are Karens (Sgaus and Pwos in about equal numbers), over 225,000 Burmans, and the remainder Talaings, Telugus, Chinese and a few English. The district has been the seat of very thriving and succe ful mi ions since has three mi ions there: a The 1837. Burman mi ion, including also the Telugus; a mi ion to the Sgau Karens, with about 10,000 communicants and 50,000 adherent population and 85 Christian villages, the largest and most advanced of all the Karen mi ions in Burma; and a mi ion to the Pwo Karens, with about 1,375 communicants, and 22 Christian villages, with an adherent population of perhaps 7,000. The Roman Catholics have a flourishing mi ion among the Pwo Karens in Ba e in, but with few The SPG has also converts from the Sgaus. a mi ion in Ba e in, which is included in its five of the larger delta ABMU Rangoon. Some efforts have been made by other denominations to plant mi ions diocese of but with little succe . Education has been carried to a greater extent among the Karens of Ba e in than in other district in Burma. here, Story of the Karen Mi icr. in Ba e in, Brocket (L. P.) Philadelphia, 1891; Self-SuppoTt in Ba e in, Carpenter (C. H.), Boston, 1884., BASSE IN Chief town of the district of Ba e in, is situated on the Ba e in River, one of the delta branches of the Irawadi, and Population, has an important trade in rice. 30,000; about 20,000 of the people are Buddhists, and the remainder are Hindus, Mohammedans Burma.: It dus, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. Mi ion station of the CMS (1878), with 3 mi ionaries (2 mi ionaries’ wives), 22 native workers, 1 high school, 2 common schools and 72 communicants. Also station of the CEZMS, with (1902) 4 mi ionary women, one of them being a physician, 7 native women workers, 1 hospital, 1 dispensary, 3 common schools and 70 Zenana pupils. BATANGA. See Great Batanga. 91