The Loyal Karens of BurmaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 264 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... chiefs in Siam that the timber revenue must at once cease if the rebels got across , and so the despairing Mayankhyoung poongyee found the river Salween lined with fighting men wherever he tried to cross a party . Then he tried to cross ...
... chiefs in Siam that the timber revenue must at once cease if the rebels got across , and so the despairing Mayankhyoung poongyee found the river Salween lined with fighting men wherever he tried to cross a party . Then he tried to cross ...
Pagina 40
... chiefs ; but the moment the first coil of red tape touches a Karen levy , it paralyzes it , and you get no good of it . The Burmans around the district officer at once try and disgust the Karens with military service , and send the men ...
... chiefs ; but the moment the first coil of red tape touches a Karen levy , it paralyzes it , and you get no good of it . The Burmans around the district officer at once try and disgust the Karens with military service , and send the men ...
Pagina 46
Donald Mackenzie Smeaton. " Near a court - house I saw a Karen chief in full dress . He had brought down some dead dacoits . A dandy Burman , all in silk , with gold watch- chain , tried to crowd him off the road as usual . The Karen ...
Donald Mackenzie Smeaton. " Near a court - house I saw a Karen chief in full dress . He had brought down some dead dacoits . A dandy Burman , all in silk , with gold watch- chain , tried to crowd him off the road as usual . The Karen ...
Pagina 47
... chiefs into the jungle , and meet the troops , and be good boys till the army passes , and then go ahead again at their normal business of dacoity . In both previous wars the professional dacoits , the Thugs of Burma , retreated to what ...
... chiefs into the jungle , and meet the troops , and be good boys till the army passes , and then go ahead again at their normal business of dacoity . In both previous wars the professional dacoits , the Thugs of Burma , retreated to what ...
Pagina 50
... chief commissioner had peremp- torily ordered , he got his permit . More than a month has the poor wretch been hanging round Rangoon to get a ' permission to purchase . ' Yester- day I happened to go into the town magistrate's office ...
... chief commissioner had peremp- torily ordered , he got his permit . More than a month has the poor wretch been hanging round Rangoon to get a ' permission to purchase . ' Yester- day I happened to go into the town magistrate's office ...
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