INDEX.
- 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.
- ‘Annamese Chronicles,’ a source of history, ix.
- 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.
- Auckland, Lord, Governor-General of India, viii.
- 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.
- Bangkok, arrangements for boat-journey to, 390.
- Bang Pa Kong river, 459.
- Ban Hsope Kyem, 72.
- Ban Hsope Long, 90.
- Ban Hta, 108.
- Ban Huay Hee-o, 310.
- Ban Huay Ngoo, 368.
- Banian-tree, a large, 362.
- Ban Kau, 395.
- Ban Mai, 225, 310.
- Ban Meh Chai, 224.
- Ban Meh Chan, 184.
- 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 Mon, 345.
- Ban Meh Pik, 402.
- Ban Meh Sai, rice-plain of, 247.
- Ban Meh Set, 370.
- Ban Meh Soi, 73.
- Ban Meh Soon, 345.
- Ban Meh Ta, 288.
- 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.
- Ban Pang Kai, 307.
- 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.
- Ban Wung Pone, 439.
- Ban Yang Tone village, 218.
- Bargaining with an abbot, 300.
- Barrier to boat traffic, 399.
- Bathing images, 261.
- Bau-gyee, 54.
- Bau Koke, 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.
- Bentinck, Lord William, orders a mission to the Shan States, viii.
- Bernard, Sir Charles, chief commissioner of Burmah, 419
- —his opinion on the railway question, 422.
- Betel-chewing, 371.
- Bible translated into Shan, 312.
- Bigits, Prince, expected visit of, 283
- Birds and monkeys dying of grief, 173.
- Blossoms, spring, 220.
- Boat-hire on the Meh Nam, 65, 68.
- Boat-journeys from and to Bangkok, 413.
- 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
- Buddhist legend, 254.
- Buffaloes, light-coloured, 90.
- Bugs in Karen houses, 10.
- Bureng Naung, the Burmese Emperor, 49.
- Burial customs, 175.
- Burmah-China railway, prospects for a, 171.
- 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.
- 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, 146.
- 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, 29.
- 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 elephants 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
- Commissariat arrangements, 5.
- Communication cheap, necessity for, 415.
- Confessions in Siamese police courts, 449.
- Confucius and Buddha, 182.
- Consulate, visit to the, at Bangkok, 445.
- 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, descendants of, 302.
- Crown commoners, 132.
- Curiosities, bargaining for, 300.
- Cushing, Dr, 1 et seq., 31, 127
- Customs of the Zimmé ladies, 99.
- Cutch, preparations of, 370.
- Dacoiting boats, 406.
- Dagger, bargaining for a, 353.
- Daguinseik, a Siamese frontier post, 33.
- 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, 92.
- Deer-lick, a, 362.
- Deer startled, 344.
- Demoniac, a, 112.
- Demons, residence for, 141.
- Deserted cities of Manola, the, 186.
- Devan, Prince, on the proposed railway, 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
- 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, 45.
- Duplicate kings of Siam, 285.
- Dutch expelled from Burmah, vii.
- Dwarf races of Indo-China, 21.
- Dyes, use of, 87.
- Eastern 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.
- Enhancement of prices, 296.
- Entangling demons, 331.
- Ethnology of Burmah and Siam, x. et seq.
- European goods at Kiang Tung, 213.
- Evil spirits, scaring, 259.
- Execution, modes of, 32.
- Exorcist, an, 107.
- Expectant Buddhas, implements for the use of, 322.
- Exploration, proposals for further, 454.
- Exploring party, number of the, 127.
- Exports from Lakon to Bangkok, 280.
- Faith-healing, 183.
- Fang Min, 76.
- Fever, malarious, Mr Webster on, 279.
- Fighting crickets, fish, and cocks, 237.
- Filthy dwellings, 277.
- Fisheries, river, 224.
- Fisherwomen, panic-stricken, 360.
- Fishing by women, 87
- Fishing, implements used in, 169.
- Flies, bloodthirsty, 179
- —a plague of, 311.
- Flood of 1877, the great, 3.
- Floods, extraordinary, in Siam, 411.
- Foot-and-mouth disease, 327.
- Footprints of Gaudama, 70, 165.
- Foreign competition for trade, 414
- —marriages, 131.
- Forest-clad plain, 78
- —a magnificent, 180.
- Foresters, visit to Burmese, 123.
- Fortifications of the Shans, 199.
- French influence in Siam, 421.
- Frenchified monk, 443.
- Fresco-paintings of hell punishments, 299.
- Frontier dues, 163
- —trouble on the, 407.
- Fugitives put in chains, 355.
- Fumigation and disinfection, 294.
- Funeral buildings, royal, 248.
- Furniture, Shan, 83.
- Gadflies, 208.
- Gambling and opium dens, no, in Viang Pow, 366.
- Gambling currency, 234.
- Gambling games in Siam, 235
- —monopoly of, in Siam, 238.
- Gambling-house jails, 243.
- Game, large, abundance of, 345
- —an unsuccessful hunt for, 354.
- Garments, homespun, 87.
- Garnier’s journey, 426.
- Gaudama sacrificed to, as the goddess of mercy, 51
- Geological formations, peculiar, 396.
- Ghoul spirit, the, 83.
- Gibbons, wailing of, 43
- 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 travelling, 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, 461.
- Government masters in Siam, 131.
- Government monopolies, Siamese, 244.
- Governor in league with dacoits, 406.
- Guardian spirits of districts, 325.
- Hair-cutting in Siam, 345.
- Hairy-faced men, 443.
- Hang Sat, 285.
- Head-dressing of Zimmé Shans, 138.
- Headless spirits, 111.
- Hermaphroditism, 99.
- Hills, precipitous, 335.
- Hlineboay village, 4
- Hong, Chinese, a, 87.
- Hong Htan, 285.
- Horse-hair lace, 213.
- Hot springs, 24.
- House-building, rules for, 82.
- Houses in the Shan villages, 80.
- Hsong Keveh, 78.
- Htong Htan, 87.
- Huay Bau Kyow, 61, 266.
- Huay Kao, 120.
- Huay Kay-Yow, 394.
- Huay Kok Moo, 223.
- Huay Kyoo Lie, 256.
- Huay Ma Koh hills covered with teak, 26.
- Huh Sai, 329, 337
- —valley of the, 54.
- Human sacrifices, 49.
- Hysteria and evil spirits, 111.
- Idols, fallen, 355.
- Image of Buddha destroyed by missionaries, 109.
- Images, manufacture of, 67;
- purloining of, 351.
- Immorality of princes, 452.
- India and China as markets for British manufactures, 415.
- 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
- 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
- Kiang Hai plain, 126, 149, 153
- —villages near, 173.
- Kiang Hsen, 75
- Kiang Hsen plain, 184, 402.
- Kiang Hung, 427.
- Kiang Hung Shans Burmese subjects, 151.
- Kiang Ngai, 338.
- Kiang Tung Lawas, a Jung tribe, 144.
- Kiang Yuen, 120.
- King, petitioning the, regarding misgovernment, 408
- —missionary’s opinion 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.
- Labour, cheap, for the railway, 281.
- Labour-supply of Muang Fang, 352.
- Lace prized, 387.
- La-hu people, general characteristics of the, 160
- —their vocabulary, 161.
- La-hu women, dress of the, 159.
- Lake-basins, ancient, 145, 329.
- Lakon, description of the State of, 267
- Land-tax or rent, 135.
- Land yielding 250-fold, 350.
- Lanma-Gyee Garté police station, 12.
- Lao marriage, 355.
- Lao provinces of Siam, 321.
- Laos tribe, 21.
- Lapoon, 12
- ‘Lapoon Chronicle,’ 33.
- Lascivious spirits, 398.
- Lāun Ten, 191.
- Lawa race, xi.
- Lawa villages, 36.
- Lawas, the, and their customs, 38.
- Leaning pagoda, 188.
- Lent, the Buddhist, 258.
- Lepers, banishment of, 78.
- Legend of Chaum Taung, 226.
- Legend of Kiang Mee-ang, 198.
- Legend of Loi Chaum Haut, 323.
- Legend of Loi Htong, 182.
- Legend of Loi Kiang Dow, 324.
- Legend of Me-lang-ta, 58.
- Legend of Muang Nŏng, 187.
- Legend of Nan Cham-a-ta-we, 49.
- Legend of Poo-Sa and Ya-Sa, 57.
- Legend of the dipped prince, 269.
- Legend of the hare-lip, 345.
- Legend of the Kow Din, 460.
- Legend of the Lakon, 271.
- Legend of the rapids, 69.
- Legend of the Ring Lake, 272.
- Legend of Tum Tap Tow, 342.
- Legend of Wat Pra Non, 317.
- Liars, the greatest, in the East, the Siamese, 298.
- Libraries of the monasteries, 301.
- Loi Ap Nang, 399.
- Loi Chang Hong, 396.
- Loi Chaum Haut, 369.
- Loi Chaum Haut mountain, 323.
- Loi Chong Teng, 320.
- Loi Hin Poon, 393.
- Loi Hoo-a Soo-a, 76.
- Loi Hsope Kang, 74.
- Loi Kai Khee-a, 73.
- Loi Kat Pee, 324.
- Loi Ken Noi, 329.
- Loi Keng Soi, 397.
- Loi Kern, 64, 393.
- Loi Kiang Dow, 323, 335.
- Loi Kom, 56.
- Loi Kom Ngam, 47.
- Loi Kom Ngam mountain, 44.
- Loi Kong Lome, 250.
- Loi Kook Loi Chang, 148.
- Loi Koon Htan, 285.
- Loi Kow Chung, 440.
- Loi Kow Luong, 441.
- Loi Kyoo Pa Săng, 341.
- Loi Law village, 77.
- Loi Loo-en, 225.
- Loi Luong hills, 401.
- Loi Meh Pa Neh, 404.
- Loi Mok, 144, 309.
- Loi Mon Kow Ngam, 270.
- Loi Mum Moo, 140, 309.
- Loi Nan, the Lady’s Hill, 335, 338.
- Loi Oo-um, 369.
- Loi Pa Chan, 136.
- Loi Pa Chan plateau, 309.
- Loi Pa Hem, 205.
- Loi Pa Kha range, 401.
- Loi Pa May-Yow, 396.
- Loi Pa Tyoo, 144.
- Loi Pa-Yat Pa-Yai, 332, 341.
- Loi Pah Heeng, 256.
- Loi Pah Khow hill, 56, 72.
- Loi Pah Kung, “the mountain of the tiger’s head,” 76.
- Loi Panya Lawa, 395.
- Loi Poo-ay, 153.
- Loi Pwe, 46.
- Loi Saun-Ka-tee, 205.
- Loi Soo Tayp mountain, 91
- —ascent of, 120.
- Loi Ta Khan Lai, 74.
- Loi Tat Muang Ken, 368.
- Loi Tong Wai, 46, 47.
- Loi Too-ey, 329.
- Loi Wung Ka Chow, 402.
- Lolo and Kaun villages, 365.
- Lotus, use of the, as a symbol, 51.
- Lover’s lute, description of a, 386.
- Luang Prabang, 21, 135, 321.
- MacLeod’s, General, journey to China through Burmah, viii.
- M‘Gilvary, Dr and Mrs, 94—the Doctor joins the exploring party, 123
- —sermon to the people by, 333.
- Madras boys good fighters, 7
- —their honesty, 128.
- Maing Loongyee, 16, 24, 27
- —its watersupply, 31.
- Manners, learning, 304.
- Maps of the country, 332.
- Market at Zimmé, 100
- —great variety of wares at, ib.
- Markets, need for new, 415.
- Marriage customs, 174—curious, 366.
- Martin, Rev. Mr, 94
- —joins party, 313 et seq.
- Mau Sau, a celebrated native hunter, 353.
- Maulmain thoroughfare, 4.
- Maung Doo, halt at, 127.
- Maung Fang, leave for, 315.
- Maung Haut, 61
- —party leaves, 69.
- Maung Hit, excursion to, 196.
- Maung Kent, 328.
- Maung Pan, state of, 156.
- Meals, 84
- —daily particulars of, 249.
- Medicine and pills, theft of, 383.
- Medicines, stock of, 6
- Meh Ai, the river of shame, 346.
- Meh Chan, 351.
- Meh Chun valley, 76.
- Meh Fang, 341
- Meh Gat, 42.
- Meh Hang, 329, 341.
- Meh Hau Prat, stream, 44, 370.
- Meh Haut river, 61.
- Meh Hkort valley, 136.
- Meh Hkuang, 392.
- Meh Hkuang river, 88, 127, 288.
- Meh How river, 284.
- Meh Hto river, 48.
- Meh Ing, 153.
- Meh Ing river, 225, 247.
- Meh Ka, 91.
- Meh Ka Lah, 136.
- Meh Ka Ni, 42.
- Meh Ka Tone, 27.
- Meh Kang, 74, 135.
- Meh Kee-ow, 309.
- Meh Khan, 87.
- Meh Khoke plain, 165.
- Meh Kok, 27, 135.
- Meh Kong or Cambodia river, 21, 156, 224
- —great eastern bend of the, 190.
- Meh Kong valley, 23.
- Meh Lah river, 255.
- Meh Lai, 393.
- Meh Lai river, 45.
- Meh Laik river, 24, 44.
- Meh Li, 75.
- Meh Lim, 320.
- Meh Low, 88
- Meh Lye, 44.
- Meh Mau river, 256.
- Meh Nam delta, population of the, 460.
- Meh Nam river, navigation on the, 250, 441 et seq.
- Meh Ngat, crossing the, 363
- —defile of the, 368.
- Meh Ngor river, 21, 24
- —its width and depth, 26.
- Meh Ngow, arrival of expedition at, 252
- —description of the city of, 253.
- Meh Nium river, 20, 21, 24, 31.
- Meh Nium valley, 44.
- Meh Pai, 353.
- Meh Pa-pai, 60.
- Meh Pau, a tributary of the Thoungyeen river, 17.
- Meh Phit, 75.
- Meh Pik, or the Pepper river, 147.
- Meh Ping, 64, 127, 320, 330
- —sources of the, 328.
- Meh Poi, 341.
- Meh Sa river, 320.
- Meh Sa Lin river, 31, 42.
- Meh Soo-ay, a royal game-preserve, 147.
- Meh Sow river, 287.
- Meh Ta, valley of the, 88, 287.
- Meh Ta Loke, 360.
- Meh Tan, 393.
- Meh Teng valley, 329.
- Meh Teun, 393.
- Meh Tha Wah, 18, 23.
- Meh Too, 23.
- Meh Trien, valley of the, 283.
- Meh Tyen, 48.
- Meh Wung, 141
- Meh Yee-ep, 393.
- Meh Yom, 439.
- Meh Yu-ek, 251.
- Mehongson, 353.
- Merchandise brought by Chinese traders, 213.
- Mha Tha Ket, 48.
- Meh Wung, 404.
- Mineral springs, 24.
- Missionaries approve of the extension of the railway system, 96
- Missionaries bad sportsmen, 357.
- Missions, promising field for, 389.
- Mokmai, a Burmese Shan State, 334.
- Mon race and language, the, xi.
- Monasteries in Maing Loongyee, 31.
- Monastery, visit to a, 78.
- Monastic life, entering, 337.
- Moné, the chief of, subject to Great Britain, 157.
- Mong Hpai, 432.
- Mong Nai, 432.
- Monk spoilt by the ladies, 165.
- Monks, evil practices of, 301.
- Monopolies, effect of, 365.
- Monosyllabic languages, 161.
- Moonlight scene, a, 330.
- Moung Loogalay, 326.
- Mountain villages of the Khas, 21.
- Moway, famous quarries of, 300.
- Muang Fang, 337
- Muang Hăng State, 335.
- Muang Haut, 295, 392.
- Muang Hpan, 223.
- Muang Ken, 368.
- Muang Ko, 437.
- Muang La Maing, 120.
- Muang Len, 426.
- Muang Ngai burned, 335
- —the city of, 338.
- Muang Ngam, 350.
- Muang Ngow city, 245.
- Muang Nium principality, 30.
- Muang Nyon, 350.
- Muang Penyow, 229.
- Muang Phan, 221.
- Muang Sat, 350.
- Muang Soon Dok, the town of the flower-garden, 120.
- Mud, boiling, to make tea, 225.
- Musical water-wheels, 89.
- Myawadi, 419.
- Naiads, offerings to the, 259.
- Nam Proon, 432.
- Needlework, fancy, 103.
- Neis, Dr Paul, French navy, 135
- —his survey for a railway route, 278.
- New Htow, 394.
- Nga-peur-dau village, 14.
- Ngio (Burmese Shans) raids, 365.
- Ngio, or Moné Shans, 158.
- Ngu race, xi.
- Nirvana, the state of, 337.
- Nong Doo Sakan, 88.
- Nong Hang, 225.
- Nong Sang, 89.
- Nong Vee-a plain, 342.
- Offerings to the dead, 17, 147
- Ogres, Madras boys taken for, 167.
- Oo-caw stream, 24.
- Ootaradit, 441.
- Organ or pipes, the Laos, 339.
- Oxen used for drawing timber, 308.
- Paddy-birds, flocks of, 209.
- Pagoda, a fine, 91
- Pahpoon, 33.
- Pah Took, 255.
- Pa-kin-soo, 392.
- Pak Bong, 88.
- Pak Muang, 90.
- Pak Nam Po, 441, 442.
- Palace at Zimmé, 101.
- Palace of the angels, description of the, 324.
- Palmyra-trees, 401.
- Pang Eemoon, swampy valley of, 60.
- Pang Hpan, 43.
- Pang Ngao, village of, 225.
- Pang Pau, 341.
- Pa Sang, 88.
- Pass 6500 feet above the sea, 156
- Passports supplied to the exploring party, 125.
- Paths over the hills, nature of the, 36.
- Patriarch, family, 129.
- Pau-ku-lay Toung, 17.
- Pau Pa Teun, 177.
- Pedlars, Burmese, 253.
- Penyow, 224
- —expedition leaves, 246.
- Peoples, Dr, 112 et seq.
- Petchaburi, governor of, 407.
- Petroleum at Kiang Dow and Muang Fang, 333.
- Petticoats, purchasing, 392.
- Phayre, Sir Arthur, on British interests in Siam, 421.
- Phichai, 441.
- Photographic apparatus spoiled, 20.
- Phya Khrut or Garuda, the king of eagles, 234.
- Pigs, wild, ravages of, 186.
- Pillar-Rock, 401.
- Ping Shans, 49.
- Plain, a beautiful, 364.
- Plants, dangerous, in the jungle, 361.
- Play, a Shan, 338.
- Poayhla, 430, 432.
- Portuguese ousted from Burmah, vii.
- Pottery, manufacture of, 233.
- Prayers, chanting, 452.
- Prices of various articles at Maulmain, Bangkok, and Zimmé, 296.
- Primitive pagoda, a, 308.
- Prince, an intelligent, on the best railway route, 143.
- Princes in their best clothes, 154.
- Princess trader, visit to a, 103
- —her opinion on the proposed railway, ib.
- —friend to the missionaries, 117.
- Principality, ancient, of Hsen, 200.
- Prisdang’s, Prince, letter, 114.
- Prison of Bangkok, 451.
- Prisoners in chains sawing timber, 102.
- Procession of exploring party when entering Kiang Hai, 154.
- Propitiation of spirits, 179.
- Provisions, out of, 358.
- Punishments in the Buddhist hells, 263.
- Purchas’s visit to Zimmé, vii.
- Quambee, 10.
- Quanta, 3.
- Quinine, value of, 363.
- Races, separation of, in the cities, 352.
- Rachel, a Shan, 228.
- Raheng, 15
- Railway communication, proposed branch line from Yembine to Tehdau-Sakan, 1
- —proposed route of railway from Maulmain, 48
- —paths for a railway, 56, 75
- —discussion with the King of Zimmé about the railway, 102
- —suggested route, 143
- —road for a line to China, 151
- —Dr Cheek on the prospects of a Burmah-China railway, 170
- —branch line to Muang Fang, 184
- —benefits of opening up the country by, 196
- —chief’s opinion regarding labour, &c., for constructing, 214
- —loop-line to Zimmé, 215
- —proposed route to Muang Phan, 222
- —importance of Penyow in regard to, 232
- —route along the valley of the Meh Wung, 251
- —how to tap the trade of Muang Nan and Muang Peh, 252
- —proposed line from Bangkok viâ Lakon, 255
- —Dr Neis on the railway connection of Burmah and China, 278
- —cheap labour for the railway, 281
- —desire for the projected railway, 292
- —a branch line from Lakon, 309
- —line from Zimmé to Kiang Hsen, 361
- —talk with Prince Bigit on the subject of railways, 381
- —routes for the railway, 403
- —importance of connecting India with China, 415
- —the Indo-Burmese and Burmo-Chinese projects, 416 et seq.
- —advantages of Maulmain as a terminus, 417
- —the Siamese route to Raheng, 418
- —Sir Charles Bernard and other authorities on the projected routes, 419 et seq.
- —character of the Bhamo route, 429
- —the Maulmain or nothing, 433
- —commercial importance of the proposed railway, 434
- —resolutions of Chambers of Commerce on the Burmah-Siam-China Railway, 464 et seq.
- Rain-god Indra, descent of the, 260.
- Rangoon and Mandalay railway, 14.
- Rapids shooting, dangerous, 395 et seq.
- Raspberries, wild, 46.
- Rebellion of the Zimmé Shans against Burmah, 88.
- Religious buildings erected by the Burmese, 124
- —ruined, 355.
- Rénan’s, Ernest, ‘New Studies of Religious History’ quoted, p. 57, note.
- Responsibility of villagers for loss and crime in their district, 139.
- Rice-plain, a large, 179.
- Rice-plain of Zimmé, 127
- —export of, from Penyow to Lakon, 231.
- Richardson, Dr, viii.
- —his visit to Maing Loongyee in 1829, 30.
- Ringworm, 192.
- River, a filthy, 230.
- Robbing an image, 198.
- Romantic princess, a, 117.
- Roses, wild, 247.
- Routes from China, 213.
- Rubies, searching for, 403.
- Ruby-mines, 61, 266.
- Ruins of temples, extensive, near Kiang Hsen, 193.
- Russia and Siam, comparison between, 297.
- Russian railway across Asia, projected, 420.
- Sacred cave of Tum Tap Tow, 342.
- Sacred hills, 182.
- Sacrifices to evil spirits, 22
- —to ancestors and demons, 52.
- Salt used as currency in the Zimmé market, 164.
- Salween mountain, 329.
- Salween river, 3, 10.
- Sambhur deer, a, 403.
- Samuel, Thomas, first English visitor to the Shan States, vii.
- Sapphire-mines, 462.
- Satow, Mr, British consul-general in Siam, 419.
- Sawankalok, 439.
- Scott, Mr (Shwé Yoe), on religious tortures, 380, 445.
- Service, evening, in a temple, 316.
- Settlements, formation of, 220
- —method of forming new, 350.
- Sgau Karens, 17.
- Shadow spirit, the, 83.
- Shan dynasties in Burmah, 82.
- Shan ladies, visit to, 321.
- Shan language and its dialects, 312.
- Shan Queen in English dress, 119.
- Shan race, xv.
- Shan States or kingdoms, 32.
- Shans bartering goods, 46.
- Shaving the head and eyebrows, 304.
- Shoaygoon, 1, 3.
- ‘Siam and Laos,’ by Dr Cheek, quoted, 170.
- Siam, British stake in, 420.
- Siam railways need high embankments, 411.
- Siamese authorities, apathy of, 390.
- Siamese Commissioner, visit the, 113.
- Siamese, description and dress of, 113.
- Siamese frontier post, 20.
- Siamese history, early, xiii.
- Siamese officials expect bribes, 19.
- Silk-cotton trees, 71.
- Silver coinage in use, 163.
- Silver-mines, 75, 403.
- Siva worship, 319.
- Sketching the scenery of the country, 64.
- Slave-bondage, 131.
- Slavery, gambling a cause of, 238
- —the law of Siam, regarding, ib.
- —parents selling children into, 240.
- Slavery in Bangkok, 452.
- Slaves, price of, 31, 130
- —purchased from Red Karens, 388.
- Smallpox, outbreak of, 28
- Smith-work of the Shans, 55.
- Snake, sitting on a, 362.
- Snake-worship, 318.
- Soil and foliage, 146.
- Song Kare, 91.
- Song Kweh, 400.
- Soom Cha, 402.
- Spinning-wheels, emigrants carrying, 363.
- Spirit-clans, formation of, 396.
- Spirit-medium, a, 105.
- Spirit-worship of Ping Shans, 373.
- Spirit-worshippers, 15.
- Spirits alluring travellers, 398.
- Springs, hot, 340.
- Ssumao, a Chinese frontier post, 151.
- Stone images of Buddha, 233.
- Stork, King, 448.
- Story of a yak, 59.
- Story of the peacock and crow, 63.
- Straining water, 323.
- Street, Colonel, 48.
- Subterranean channels, 24.
- Sugar-press, a simple, 74.
- Suicide by no means unusual, 152.
- Sukkhothai, 439.
- Sunday service by Dr M‘Gilvary, 216.
- Superstition, degrading influence of, 82.
- Survey of passes between Siam and Burmah, 391.
- Surveying, 9
- —under difficulties, 139.
- Surveys made for the King of Siam by English engineers for railways, 196.
- Sworn brothers, 354.
- Ta Kwai village, 90.
- Ta Nong Hluang ferry, 71.
- Ta Nong Pai, 91.
- Ta Pa or “rock-ferry,” 73.
- Ta Pwee ford, 402.
- Ta Wang Pow, 89.
- Tai Ngio people, 157.
- Tali-foo, 427.
- Tattooing, practice of, 138.
- Taxation in Siam, vexatious, 447.
- Taxation, light, 135
- Taxes in Kiang Hai, 163.
- Tea-growing on the hills to the west of Meh Ping, 369.
- Tea, wild, plant, 24, 320.
- Teaching in a monastery, 304.
- Teak-forests in the Thoungyeen valley, 21
- Teak-trees, 10 et seq.
- Tee-tee-ko, 16.
- Teh-dan-Sakan, 12, 14, 16.
- Temple, Shan description of a, 66.
- Temple, Sir Richard, on the proposed railway to China, 424.
- Tenasserim division of Burmah, 1.
- Thatone, 4.
- Thoungyeen river, 10–16, 20 et seq.—, 405.
- Thoungyeen valley, 21.
- Thunderstorm, tremendous, 281.
- Tigers, scaring, 137
- —prowling of, 179.
- Timber king, a, and the money-lenders, 28.
- Tobacco, cutting, 57
- —caravan laden with, 346.
- Tobacco-gardens, 70.
- Toon Chang, 460.
- Torture at the police courts, 450.
- Tower muskets in use, 311.
- Trade and traffic of Zimmé, 104.
- Trade between British Burmah and Siam, and its Shan states, 117.
- Trade-routes, intersection of, at Kiang Hsen, 195
- —to Penyow, 232.
- Trading caravan, a, 11.
- Transmigration of the soul, belief in the, 112.
- Travellers delayed, 296.
- Tree-ferns, 44.
- Trees inhabited by spirits, 110.
- Trial by water, 260.
- Trichinosis, 346.
- Tricks with the currency, 164, 165.
- Tsin-sway, or Elephant-tusk stream, 23.
- Tum Kwan, ceremony of, 373.
- Tutelary gods, belief in, 231.
- Underground rivers, 395.
- Venison for dinner, 15.
- Viang Chai, 336.
- Viang Chaum Taung, 227.
- Viang Ma-nee-ka, 345.
- Viang Moo Bom, city of, 228.
- Viang Pa Pow, 142, 307.
- Viang Pow, 353
- Villages swept away by floods, 412
- —a line of, 444.
- Wages of boatmen, 66.
- Wang Hluang Pow, 87.
- War-paths leading from Burmah to Zimmé and Siam, 30.
- Warming of Buddh, the, 265.
- Waterfalls, high, 42, 397.
- Water festival at the New Year, 265.
- Water-parting between the Meh Ping and Meh Kong, 360.
- Water-wheels, 75.
- Wat Phra Chow Toon Hluang, 227.
- Webster, Rev. David, American Baptist Mission, 19 et seq.—390.
- Whistling rockets, 219.
- White Elephant, temple of the, 315.
- Wilson, Rev. Jonathan, 96.
- Witch villages, 143.
- Witchcraft, spirit of, 106
- Witches considered free agents, 108.
- Woman put in chains, 218.
- Women, shameless, 393.
- Wood-oil, collection and uses of, 249.
- Wood with a horrible odour, 180.
- Wung Hoo-a-Kwai, 74.
- Wung Muang, 321.
- Wung Pan, 74.
- Yain Sa Lin, 35, 42.
- Yaks of Indo-China, 58.
- Yambine river, 11.
- Yare-they-mare hill, 11.
- Yembine valley, excursion in the, 13.
- Yembine village, 14.
- Yingan river, 12.
- Yule, Sir Henry, on the Burmah-Siam-China Railway, 423.
- Yunnanese traders to Maulmain, 210.
- Yunnan-foo, 427.
- Zimmé, arrival at, 93
- Zimmé chain of hills, 56.
- Zimmé, leave, without interpreters, 306.
- Zimmé plain, villages in the, 288.
- Zimmé, Shan state of, and its former extent, 32.
- Zylophone, a native, 322.