Goitre is very prevalent among them; in some villages Major Couchman believes that as many as 25 per cent.

of the inhabitants are afflicted with the disease.

They have no written language, but their spoken language has been romanised by the American missionaries in Burma.
We camped within five miles of the British border at the Chinese fortlet of Settee, a palisaded camp whose gateway also was hung with heads of dacoits.

A Chinese Shan was in command, a smart young officer with a Burmese wife.

He was active, alert, and intelligent, and gave me the best room in the series of sheds which formed the barracks.