Moulmein is situated up the mouth of a river which ought to flow through South America.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  From Sea to Sea.

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.