Aborigines, the, 21.
Accadian literature of Chaldea, 52.
Acolytes, rules for the, 303.
Adepts at intrigue, 445.
Adultery, punishment for, 301.
Alabaster, Mr, on slavery in Bangkok,
447.
American Presbyterian Missions in
Siam and Zimmé, 93.
Ancestral and demon worship, 82, 151.
Ancestral spirits, consulting, 106.
Aneroid, accident to, 226.
Ang Sa Lome, 324.
Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1874, 116.
'Annamiese Chronicles,' a source
history, ix.
Ban Meh Chun, 403.
Ban Meh Hang, visit to, 357.
Ban Meh Kap village, 331.
Ban Meh Kaun, 335, 337.
Ban Meh Kee, 184.
Ban Meh Kih, 345, 360.
Ban Meh Lim, 334.
Ban Meh Meh, 332.
Ban Meh Mou, 345.
Ban Meh Pik, 402.
Ban Meh Sai, rice-plain of, 247.
Ban Meh Set, 370.
Ban Meh Soi, 73.
Archer, Mr, British Consul at Zimmé,
on the extent of the trade converging
at Kiang Hai, 209 et seq.—his report
on Muang Fang, 351.
Assassinating a lover, 118.
Ban Meut Kha, 394.
Ban Nang En, 392.
Ban Nong Long, 74.
Ban Nyang village, 392.
Ban Pa Sak, 136, 187.
Ban Pah Yang Neur, 403.
Auckland, Lord, Governor-General of Ban Pang Kai, 307.
Augury of fowl-bones, the, 347.
Ayuthia, former capital of Siam, 412.
Baber's, Mr Colborne, survey of the
Bhamo route, 427.
Ban Bung Kay-ow, 440.
Ban Perng, 369.
Ban Poo-ken, 220.
Ban Soop Tau, 400.
Ban Ta Doo-a, 402.
Ban Ta Doo-er, 393.
Ban Ta Ngoo, 441.
Ban Ta Pee, 78.
Bangkok, arrangements for boat-jour- Ban Wung Pone, 439.
Ban Hta, 108.
Ban Huay Hee-o, 310.
Ban Huay Ngon, 368.
Banian-tree, a large, 362.
Ban Kau, 395.
Ban Mai, 225, 310.
Ban Meh Chai, 224.
Ban Meh Chan, 184.
Ban Yang Tone village, 218.
Bargaining with an abbot, 300.
Barrier to boat-traffic, 399.
Bathing images, 261.
Bau-gyee, 54.
Bau plateau, natives of the, 47, 59.
Bau Sa Lee, 48.
Bau Sa-lee-am, 395.
Bed-bugs, abundance of, 278.
Bed without dinner, 362.
Begging for meals, 302.
Bock, Carl, on the mineral wealth of
Lakon, 281.
Bo Toung hill, 14.
Books, palm-leaf, 301.
Bowring, Sir John, on the population
of the Shan States, 383.
Boxing and wrestling, 385.
Boxing with regular gloves, 217.
Bribery and extortion at frontier guard-
house, 295.
Brick and tile works, 89.
Bridge disaster, 386.
Bridging the Salween, 14.
Britons, ancient, and Shans compared,
200.
Bronze images of Gaudama, 193.
Brothels in Bangkok, 452.
Bryce, Mr, manager of the Bombay
Trading Company, 5, 10, 24, 39 et seq.
Buddha, footprints of, 70-a crowned,
166-a, forty-five feet high, 228.
Buddhist legend, 254.
Buffaloes, light-coloured, 90.
Bugs in Karen houses, 10.
Bureng Naung, the Burmese Emperor,
Cattle, black, export of, 30-with nose-
bags and masks, 146.
Cattle-breeding among the Khas, 22.
Cattle disease spreading, 359.
Cattle with nose- bags and masks
Caverns, flat-arched, 394.
Cham race of Malay stock, x.
Chambers of Commerce on the Burmah.
Siam-China Railway, 464 et seq.
Charms let in the flesh, 138.
Chaum Taung, 226.
Chedi Lee-am, large monastery at, 91.
Cheek, Dr, 98 et seq.
Chetties, or Native of India bankers,
Chinese chop-sticks, 85.
Chinese fortifications, 142.
Chinese in Siam, 461.
Chinese pack-saddles for mules, 212.
Chinese settlers from Ssuchuan,
Kweichau, and Yunnan, 196.
Chow Oo Boon, Princess, lends ele-
phants to exploring party, 313.
Chow Oo-Boon, the spirit medium and
historian of the royal family, 49-
instances of her power, 105.
Christianity a great boon, 325.
Cicadas and their music, 284.
Cities, ancient, 199-deserted, 223.
Clarke, Sir Andrew, and the Siamese
system of railways, 425.
Cliffs a mile high, 397.
Clothing worn by females, 52.
Colquhoun, Mr, author of work on
Siam, 48-expected meeting with,
381-arrival, 454.
Commissariat arrangements, 5.
Communication cheap, necessity for,
415.
Confessions in Siamese police courts,
Confucius and Buddha, 182.
Burmah-China railway, prospects for Consulate, visit to the, at Bangkok,
Burmese Christians, 15.
Burmese Shans, 145.
Burmese Shans, invasion of, 335.
Burning the dead, 49.
Butterflies, abundance of, 181, 251.
Butterfly in man, Burmese psychology
of the, 181.
Cabalistic charms, 81.
Camp dinners and cookery, 128.
Canal irrigation, 127.
Caravan traffic through Zimmé, 104.
Carriage from China, cost of, 170.
Cartographer of the R. G.S. on Mr Holt
Hallett's survey, 293.
Copper found in Lakon, 281-mine of,
at Muang Kut, 291.
Courageous lady, a, 60.
Courtship, marriage, and divorce among
the Shans, 128.
Creation of man, Buddhist legends of
the, 182.
Criminal sentenced to slavery, descend-
ants of, 302.
Crown commoners, 132.
Curiosities, bargaining for, 300.
Cushing, Dr, 1 et seq., 31, 127-has
smallpox, 286-house for, built in
two days, 294-on the present con-
dition of the Shans, 387.
Customs of the Zimmé ladies, 99.
Cutch, perparations of, 370.
Dacoiting-boats, 406.
Dagger, bargaining for a, 353.
Enhancement of prices, 296.
Entangling demons, 331.
Ethnology of Burmah and Siam, x. et
seq.
European goods at Kiang Tung, 213.
Daguinseik, a Siamese frontier post, Evil spirits, scaring, 259.
Dale, a beautiful, 286.
Damming streams for fisheries, 224.
Dana Toung range of hills, 10.
Dances of the Karens, 37.
Dang Whung Chow, 437.
Dead forest, 251.
Decoration of temples and monasteries,
Demoniac, a, 112.
Demons, residence for, 141.
Deserted cities of Manola, the, 186.
Devan, Prince, on the proposed rail-
way, 455 et seq.
Dianas, youthful, in Zimmé, 99.
Dinner served in European style, 125.
Disease, theory of, the Siamese, 273.
Distilling pots, huge iron, 209.
Divorce, payments for, 174.
Doctor, a Siamese, 272-payment of,
by the job, 275-adds to his income
by acting as a priest to the demons,
276.
Dog offered to demons, 3.
Dong Phya Phai, 462.
Drainage of district flowing in three
directions, 341.
Dredges, hand, 435.
Drinking habits of the Khas, 22.
Droves of pigs and laden cattle, meet,
Duplicate kings of Siam, 285.
Dutch expelled from Burmah, vii.
Dwarf-races of Indo-China, 21.
Dyes, use of, 87.
Fastern Siam, excursion to, 458.
Eclipse seen at Muang Ngow, 254.
Eels, eating white, 187.
Elephants, motion of, 11-crossing
steep hills, 25-hiring, 33, 40-
cruel drivers of, 45-without tusks,
177-elephant-driving, 178-danger
when driver is careless, 179-as tool-
users, ib.-man killed by a wild
elephant, 214-buying an elephant,
216-playing truant, 285-training,
316-a vicious one, 326-attacked
by a vicious, 359.
Embroideries, Shan, excellence of, 392.
Embroidery sent to Burmah, 87.
"Emerald Buddh," the celebrated, 167.
Geological formations, peculiar, 396.
Ghoul spirit, the, 83.
Gibbons, wailing of, 43-agility of,
208-the cry of, 307.
Giving, a privilege, 302.
Glutinous rice, 13.
God of medicine, the, 272-fee to, 275.
Goddess of mercy, the, 51.
Gods, waking the, with water, 264.
Gold and silver carried while travel-
ling, 2.
Gold, indications of, 147-in the Kiang
Tung Lawa country, 175.
Gold-mines, tramway to the, 463.
Goteik defile, 431.
Gould, Mr, British Vice-Consul to the
Zimmé Shan States, 283, 314 et seq.
Government masters, unscrupulous,
Image of Buddha destroyed by mission-
aries, 109.
Images, manufacture of, 67; purloin-
ing of, 351.
Immorality of princes, 452.
Indra's heaven, 70.
Inquisitive people, 338.
Inscriptions on foundation-stones, 385.
Insignia of office, a chief's, 162.
Iron-mine guarded by demons, 54-
near Kiang Hsen, 196-in Lakon,
281.
Japanese books, library of, 446.
Joke about Phra Chedi Sow, 271.
Judge, a Christian, 268.
Jungle-demons, 397.
Jungle-fire, 184.
Kamait, catching a, 336.
Kamait language, the, 336.
Kamaits, the, 21.
Kamook lumber-men, 400.
Kamooks, the, 21.
Kamphang Pet, 412, 437.
Kanyin, or oil-tree, 248.
Karen interpreter and guide, 6.
Karen tribes, xiii.
Karen villages, 36-Christians, 279.
Karen Yain, 36.
Karroway Toung or Parrot's Hill, 21,
47-pass, 23.
Ka-wat or pagoda slaves, 122.
Khas, the, 21.
Kiang Dow, 75-province of, 330-
description of the city of, 334.
Kiang Hai plain, 126, 149, 153-vil-
lages near, 173.
Kiang Hsen, 75-arrival of expedition
at, 189-extent of city, 195-de-
struction of, in 1804, 201-repopula-
tion of, 202.
Kiang Hsen plain, 184, 402.
Kiang Hung, 427.
Kiang Hung Shans Burmese subjects,
Kiang Tung Lawas, a Jung tribe,
King, petitioning the, regarding mis-
government, 408-missionary's opin-
ion of, 410.
Kissing with the nose, 83.
Koo Saik Choung river, 17.
Korat plateau, 462.
Kow Sau Kyow, 402.
Krong Suen Ma, 438.
Kun Lôn ferry, 431 et seq.
Kweh Chow village, 88.
Kyoo Pow, 207.
Kyouk Toung hills, 11.
India and China as markets for Brit- Labour, cheap, for the railway, 281.
Labour-supply of Muang Fang, 352.
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