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"At Mo-li-ba we first learned from Clive that the U.S.A. had broken off diplomatic relations with Burma about some time after crossing over the stone Burma boundary monuments. Mo-li-ba is a Chinese settlement at the women having bound feet. The land is not at this season planted to poppies which were in bloom. The blossoms are large white 3 inches across, occasionally there are lavender blooms seen. The opium fields from Jaffy Island envelope the poppy grown here extends across the border into China. No custom house or British government official were seen on the boundary. The British have evidently moved the boundary into Chinese territory in recent years. Harris' Map has Mo-li-ba well inside Chinese territory while now it is some miles inside Burma. Here at Mo-li-ba we again found only a mud hole a Buffalo wallow as a watering, camping place.