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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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building commenced next day. I brought with me from Mandalay a Mohammedanservant, Mohamet Galub by name, a native of Hyder-abad in the Deccan, who for two years served mefaithfully and honestly. He spoke English well, andalso Burmese, and, as many of the Shans understand alittle Burmese, and some of them speak it well, he wasable to act as my interpreter. He brought his wifewith him, and also a favourite cat named Moti. Itschief amusement was catching snakes, then bringingthem into the house in a dying—but by no means dead—condition, and playing with them there. On oneoccasion it was bitten by a snake and nearly died, butrecovered after having been very ill for nearly twenty-four hours ; ultimately I think that its death must havebeen caused by snake-bite, as it suddenly disappeared,and Mohamet and his wife mourned its loss for manydays. For some time a Kachin girl worked for me aswater-carrier and washerwoman. She was a Christian,taught by the American missionaries, and certainly
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f INTRODUCTION xvii was a great improvement on the heathen womenof her race. She was a good girl, obliging, andclean. Several natives of India live in Namkham, some ofthem having married Shan wives. I found them aquiet set of men, who spent their time in tradingbetween MOng-Mao, in Yun-nan, and Bhamo, makingNamkham their headquarters. They had built a tinymosque for themselves, and their call to prayer mightbe heard whenever they were in the place. Theywere a strange mixture of races from Northern toSouthern India, united only by their religion. Irecollect that when, one night, my house was unroofedby a hurricane, four of them left their own homes,and, although the air was full of pieces of roof andbranches of trees, blown by the violence of the storm,they came to see if they could help me. They foundme out-of-doors, as my house was not safe, and, whenthe wind had lulled—though the rain was pouringdown in the form of liquid mud (the sand and dustthat had been blown up into the air d

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