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... foot waterfall - A beautiful hill - torrent - A lugubrious tale - Gibbons - Gigantic tree - ferns -Shans cruel elephant - drivers - Method of driving - Droves of pigs and laden cattle - Loi Pwe - An accident - Wild rasp- berries - Shans ...
... foot waterfall - A beautiful hill - torrent - A lugubrious tale - Gibbons - Gigantic tree - ferns -Shans cruel elephant - drivers - Method of driving - Droves of pigs and laden cattle - Loi Pwe - An accident - Wild rasp- berries - Shans ...
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... Foot - and - mouth disease - Snares for demons - A panorama of hills - Sources of the Meh Ping and Meh Teng - A river passing under a mountain - Muan Hang an ancient lake - basin - Rival claims of Ping Shans and - CONTENTS . British ...
... Foot - and - mouth disease - Snares for demons - A panorama of hills - Sources of the Meh Ping and Meh Teng - A river passing under a mountain - Muan Hang an ancient lake - basin - Rival claims of Ping Shans and - CONTENTS . British ...
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... foot or summit of a mountain pass , where one has to check the height by the boiling- point thermometer . For the first hour after leaving Hlineboay we passed over slightly undulating ground , covered with stunted trees and scrub ...
... foot or summit of a mountain pass , where one has to check the height by the boiling- point thermometer . For the first hour after leaving Hlineboay we passed over slightly undulating ground , covered with stunted trees and scrub ...
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... foot in length , and eaten when required . Joints of green bamboos likewise serve them for kettles : placed slanting over a fire , the water soon boils . The elephants feeding in the neighbourhood . could be heard crashing through the ...
... foot in length , and eaten when required . Joints of green bamboos likewise serve them for kettles : placed slanting over a fire , the water soon boils . The elephants feeding in the neighbourhood . could be heard crashing through the ...
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... foot . From thenceforth , during my land journeys , I surveyed from the back of an elephant . The boys , in packing our breakfast for us , perhaps out of fun , omitted not only to put in my cigars , but also our knives , forks , and ...
... foot . From thenceforth , during my land journeys , I surveyed from the back of an elephant . The boys , in packing our breakfast for us , perhaps out of fun , omitted not only to put in my cigars , but also our knives , forks , and ...
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amongst bamboo Ban Meh Bangkok bank Bhamo boys breakfast Buddh Burmah Burmese Shans camp caravan chief China Chinese Chow Hluang cotton crest crossed the Meh distance Dr Cushing Dr M'Gilvary east elephants feet broad feet deep forest Gaudama ground halted hillocks hills howdah Huay inches journey Kamooks Kampti Karenni Karens Khas Khow Khum Kiang Hai Kiang Hsen Kiang Tung La-hu Lakon Laos Lapoon Lawa leaving Loi Soo Tayp Loogalay Luang Prabang mahout Maing Loongyee Maulmain Meh Khoke Meh Kong Meh Laik Meh Low Meh Nium Meh Ping Meh Wung miles from Hlineboay missionaries monastery Moné morning Moung Muang Haut Ngor night Nong pagoda passed Phya Ping Shans placed plain plateau Portow railway rest-house rice river rupees Salween Salween river sandstone Siamese side slaves spirits spurs stream teak temple Thoungyeen told trees valley verandah Viang Yunnan Zimmé Shans
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