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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LR9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA175 “General Remarks on the Coast of Arracan”] by Captain Laws, H M S Satellite. Read at a meeting 13 June 1831. ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume the First'' , published 1832. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.2453/page/n3/mode/2up ''Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India''] by Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Archive.org. There are no maps included.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZC-R1-nLZqMC&pg=PA601 "An Account of some of the Petty States lying north of the Tenasserim Provinces: drawn up from the Journals and Reports of D Richardson … Surgeon to the Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces"] by E A Blundell, Commissioner, page 601-625, and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZC-R1-nLZqMC&pg=PA688 pages 688-707] ''Journal of the Asiatic Society'', October and November 1836. Includes Journal items from 1829 (Part 1), and 1834 (Part 2). Google Books
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one. Book 2 with index follows page 276 of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm02nost ''Travels of Doctor and Madame Helfer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah and other lands, Volume II''] ([https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm01nost Volune I]) 1878 Archive.org. Their travels commenced in 1835, and continued until 1840, when Dr Helfer was killed in the Andaman Islands.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 6: Report on the Tin and Other Mineral Productions of the Tenasserim Provinces''] 1852 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n93/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 9: Report on the Teak Forests of Tenasserim Provinces''] with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n375/mode/1up Index] 1852 Archive.org
*''Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846'' by Colesworthey Grant 1853. With illustrations [http://www.archive.org/details/roughpencillings00granrich Archive.org]. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1gh9h10n?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 HathiTrust Digital Library] where the images can be rotated.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439443?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 ''Sketches of Oriental Heads''] by Colesworthey Grant c 1846-1850 HathiTrust Digital Library. (These appear as the second half of a book file ''Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta'' by Colesworthey Grant). Includes images of ethnic groups such as Taline [Mon], Karen and Shan.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CFsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Anglo-Burmese Hand-book: Or, Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language''] by Dormer Augustus Chase, Lieut. 64th Regiment Bengal N.I. and Officiating Assistant Commissioner T.P. 1852 Google Books [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/04/the-anglo-burmese-handbook.html "The Anglo-Burmese Handbook"] 28 April 2016 British Library Untold lives blog.
*[https://archive.org/details/myamma00unkngoog ''Myamma : a Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah''] by Deputy Surgeon General C T Paske, [Charles Thomas], Late of the Bengal Army 1893 Archive.org. Also published with the title [https://archive.org/details/lifetravelinlowe00paskuoft ''Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, a Retrospect''] Archive.org. The author joined the Bengal Medical Service in August 1852, and was posted to Burma for about two years c 1853-1855, returned to India for four years, and was then reposted to Burma c 1859 for a few more years.
