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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. Leave Bangkok—Reach Maulmain—Our start for Zimme'—Arrive at Pahpoon—Mr. Davis—A famous dacoit hunter—Importance of Pahpoon—Moung Deepah—Mr. Bernard—Improved communications—Our mission—March to the Dahguin ferry—The Salween River—Catching timber. Leaving Bangkok in a gun-boat, a few days' run carried us to Singapore. There we changed to one of the local steamers, and, passing through the network of small islands lining the coast as far north as the mouth of the Salween, through coast scenery not to be surpassed anywhere that I know of, reached Maul- main after a voyage of ten days. The personnel of the mission consisted of Colonel Street, who is now Commissioner of Pegu, as chief; Dr. Oswald Baker, as medical officer; Mr. McDermott, assistant superintendent, in charge of twenty police; a Burmese myo-oke, or assistant commissioner, who had a previous knowledge of the country; and myself, as personal assistant to the chief. We had thirty-two elephants in our suite, and a little army of followers, who were chiefly Burmese. After gathering together our party and collecting the necessary stores, we started with a flotilla of native boats up the delta of the Salween River, to the mouth of the Yunzaleen, which enters the Salween in latitude18 6' north. Proceeding up that river for ninety-fivemiles, we arrived at the town of Pahpoon, the headquarter station of the Salween district, where we were welcomed by Mr. J. C. Davis, the officer in charge of the Salween hill-tracts, and of our diplomatic relations with the Siamese border province of Zimme This gentleman is renowned both as a police and district officer. Some years ago, when certain portions of the country were infested by dacoits, he employed his time for weeks in hunting them out of the precip...

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Amongst the Shans: Amongst the Shans is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future. Englisch, Taschenbuch.

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Excerpt from Amongst the Shans Ancient indo-chinese inseparable from the formation of the Chinese nation. Their Chinese affinities originated before they settled in their present seats. Misunderstandings still current on China, and recent researches - How to explain the affinities of civilization - Reasons of the similitudes - How they are illustrated in China and indo-china. Causes of the misunderstandings - Special arrangement of the Chinese Annals - Geographical and administrative divisions Excerpt from Amongst the Shans Ancient indo-chinese inseparable from the formation of the Chinese nation. Their Chinese affinities originated before they settled in their present seats. Misunderstandings still current on China, and recent researches - How to explain the affinities of civilization - Reasons of the similitudes - How they are illustrated in China and indo-china. Causes of the misunderstandings - Special arrangement of the Chinese Annals - Geographical and administrative divisions of the Chinese Dominion. Avowed existence of non-chinese populations - Slow extension of the dominion of the Chinese - Distinction between their dominion and their in¿uence. Ancient intrusive races - tek and tok race - fang or N UN G race - Woman-ruled tribes - Lolos, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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Amongst the Shans is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of Amongst the Shans is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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Amongst the Shans is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Amongst the Shans: Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Albert É. J. B. Terrien de Lacouperie, Holt Samuel Hallett Amongst the Shans: Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Albert É. J. B. Terrien de Lacouperie, Holt Samuel Hallett.

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