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Rangoon

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Rangoon

Former name (to 1989) of Yangon, the capital of Myanmar (Burma).
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But in the great Indian famine of the seventies that ship, already old then, made some wonderful dashes across the Gulf of Bengal with cargoes of rice from Rangoon to Madras.
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The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head.
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