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... Elephants feeding - Heavy dew- Journey down the Yembine valley - Motion of elephants— Difficult surveying - A practical joke - Railway to Rangoon and Mandalay - Heathen Karens - No longer a missionary - Diffi- culty in converting ...
... Elephants feeding - Heavy dew- Journey down the Yembine valley - Motion of elephants— Difficult surveying - A practical joke - Railway to Rangoon and Mandalay - Heathen Karens - No longer a missionary - Diffi- culty in converting ...
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... elephants - Dwarf races- ] s - Kamook and Kamait slaves hired by our foresters - Migration of Laos from Tonquin - The Khas of Luang Prabang - Sacrifices to demons - Drinking the health of strangers - King of Siam allows slave - hunting ...
... elephants - Dwarf races- ] s - Kamook and Kamait slaves hired by our foresters - Migration of Laos from Tonquin - The Khas of Luang Prabang - Sacrifices to demons - Drinking the health of strangers - King of Siam allows slave - hunting ...
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... elephants - Boat traffic , 94 CHAPTER X. Chow Oo - boon , a spirit - medium - Consulting ancestral spirits - An exorcist - Spirit of witchcraft - Ill - treating a patient - Treat- ment of witches - False charges - Missionary destroys an ...
... elephants - Boat traffic , 94 CHAPTER X. Chow Oo - boon , a spirit - medium - Consulting ancestral spirits - An exorcist - Spirit of witchcraft - Ill - treating a patient - Treat- ment of witches - False charges - Missionary destroys an ...
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... elephant's fun - The Meh Wung and Meh Ping - A vast plain depopulated - Timidity of elephants - Residence for de- mons - Reach Viang Pa Pow , CHAPTER XIV . . 133 A Chinese fortification - Chinese army destroyed by famine - Viang Pa Pow ...
... elephant's fun - The Meh Wung and Meh Ping - A vast plain depopulated - Timidity of elephants - Residence for de- mons - Reach Viang Pa Pow , CHAPTER XIV . . 133 A Chinese fortification - Chinese army destroyed by famine - Viang Pa Pow ...
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... Elephant - driving - Danger when driver is careless - A large rice - plain - Bargaining with the abbot at Muang Doo - Blood- thirsty flies - Elephants as tool - users - Inhospitable ancestral spirits - Game plentiful - Utterances of ...
... Elephant - driving - Danger when driver is careless - A large rice - plain - Bargaining with the abbot at Muang Doo - Blood- thirsty flies - Elephants as tool - users - Inhospitable ancestral spirits - Game plentiful - Utterances of ...
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amongst ancient 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 entered feet broad feet deep forest Gaudama ground halted hillocks hills howdah inches journey Kamooks Kampti Karenni Karens Khas Khow Khum Kiang Hai Kiang Hsen Kiang Tung 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 pagoda passed Penyow Phya Ping Shans placed plain plateau Portow railway rest-house rice river rupees Salween Salween river Siamese side slaves spirits spurs stream teak temple Thoungyeen told trees valley verandah Viang whilst Yunnan Zimmé Shans
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