The power that Ceded them was the Burmese, so that it is with the existing subjects of that empire that their present limits are in contact; though only for the northern part.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
They claim that Mpande Ceded them the land.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Afterwards Spain Ceded this country again to France, and France sold it to the United States for fifteen millions of dollars!
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett