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Page xxi
... spirit - Kissing with the nose- Furniture - Meals - Chinese chop - sticks - Spinsters - Weaving and embroidery - Dyes - Chinese hongs - Fishing - Revolt against Burmah - Zimmé and Lapoon deserted - A rest - house -Shan dialects ...
... spirit - Kissing with the nose- Furniture - Meals - Chinese chop - sticks - Spinsters - Weaving and embroidery - Dyes - Chinese hongs - Fishing - Revolt against Burmah - Zimmé and Lapoon deserted - A rest - house -Shan dialects ...
Page xxii
... spirit - medium - Consulting ancestral spirits — An exorcist - Spirit of witchcraft - Ill - treating a patient - Treat- ment of witches - False charges - Missionary destroys an image -Execution of Christians - Proclamation in favour of ...
... spirit - medium - Consulting ancestral spirits — An exorcist - Spirit of witchcraft - Ill - treating a patient - Treat- ment of witches - False charges - Missionary destroys an image -Execution of Christians - Proclamation in favour of ...
Page xxiv
... spirits - Game plentiful - Utterances of tigers - A magnificent forest - A stink - wood - Water - parting between the Kiang Hai and Kiang Hsen plains - Brave butterflies - A field for an en- tomologist Psyche in Burmah - A Central Asian ...
... spirits - Game plentiful - Utterances of tigers - A magnificent forest - A stink - wood - Water - parting between the Kiang Hai and Kiang Hsen plains - Brave butterflies - A field for an en- tomologist Psyche in Burmah - A Central Asian ...
Page xxvi
... spirits- Ancient cities - Trade - routes and cost of transport - The centre of Ping States - A Lakon prince - Views about railway - Small- pox raging - Callousness of natives - Dr Cushing infected— Deserted cities - Famous for pottery ...
... spirits- Ancient cities - Trade - routes and cost of transport - The centre of Ping States - A Lakon prince - Views about railway - Small- pox raging - Callousness of natives - Dr Cushing infected— Deserted cities - Famous for pottery ...
Page xxvii
... spirits - Offerings to naiads and demons in case of sickness -Trial by water - Superstition against saving drowning folk -Descent of the rain - god Indra - Libations - The water - feast— Bathing the images - Scene in the temple - Waking ...
... spirits - Offerings to naiads and demons in case of sickness -Trial by water - Superstition against saving drowning folk -Descent of the rain - god Indra - Libations - The water - feast— Bathing the images - Scene in the temple - Waking ...
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amongst bamboo Ban Meh Bangkok bank Bhamo boats boys breakfast British Buddh Burmah Burmese Shans camp caravan cattle chief China Chinese crest crossed the Meh distance Dr Cushing Dr M'Gilvary east elephants feet broad feet deep feet high forest Gaudama ground halted hills howdah Huay inches Indo-China journey Kamooks Karenni Karens Khow Khum Kiang Hai Kiang Hsen Kiang Tung Lakon Laos Lapoon Lawa leaving Loogalay Luang Prabang mahout Maing Loongyee Maulmain Meh Khoke Meh Kong Meh Low Meh Nium Meh Ping Meh Wung miles from Hlineboay missionaries monastery Moné monks morning Moung Muang Fang Muang Haut Ngor night pagoda passed Penyow Phya Ping Shans placed plain plateau Portow prince Raheng railway rice river route rupees Salween Salween river Siamese side slaves spirits spurs stream teak temple Thoungyeen told trees valley verandah Viang village whilst Yunnan Zimmé Shans
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