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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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tarvingpeople do not exist, and there are few unemployed,because any man or woman may easily earn a liveli-hood by asking for jungle land, by clearing and cul-tivating, and by selling the produce that is grownupon it. In October, caravans of mules, laden with basketsfull of persimmons and walnuts, come from Yiin-nanas soon as the rains are over. Walnuts have beenimported from very early times, and Shans tell manystories of small frontier wars arising from the extor-tionate demands of custom-house officials, who leviedexorbitant export or import duties on this fruit whenthe merchants brought the nuts across the frontier. There is no lack of vegetables in Shan bazaars.!There are several kinds of pumpkins and gourds, also jcucumbers, chilies, ginger, egg-plants, tomatoes, severalkinds of beans, peas (picked when they are overripeand hard), onions, and potatoes, the latter small andnot very good. There are three kinds of maize; thecolours of the grains when ripe are orange, white, and ^^^
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i FOOD 141 black. The latter are most esteemed; the cobs arebrought to market already roasted or boiled. There are many yams and other tuberous rootswhich, when found growing wild in the jungle, arebrought to the villages for sale ; also leaves of manykinds of trees and bushes used in flavouring curry. Lotus seeds are considered a great delicacy. Theleads are brought to market, fiwe or six tied togetherIn each bunch. Each head, or thalamus, looks notjinlike the ** rose of a large watering-can. The seeds,A^hen young, have a nutty flavour, and when friednake a good vegetable. i Many kinds of fungi are brought to the markets, both(rashly picked and dried. The fruit and vegetable section of a Shan marketB most picturesque. It is open to the sky, and the!)eople sit on tiny bamboo stools under the shade ofjheir big hats, sometimes holding their yellow paperjimbrellas over their heads, the different kinds of fruitspassed around them in glowing heaps on the ground. A more unpleasant division

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