Unmarried, they wear no head-dress, but have their hair cut in a black mop with a deep fringe to the eyebrows.

If married, their head-dress is the same as that of the Shan women--a huge dark-blue conical turban.

Morality among the Kachin maidens, a missionary tells me, is not, as we understand the term, believed to exist.

There is a tradition in the neighbourhood concerning a virtuous maiden; but little reliance can be placed on such legendary tales.

Among the Kachins each clan is ruled by a Sawbwa, whose office "is hereditary, not to the eldest son, but to the youngest, or, failing sons, to the youngest surviving brother." (Anderson.) All Kachins chew betel-nut and nearly all smoke opium--men, women and children.