FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



out of their thick glutinous calix the natives make a conserve. 

 The rising ground brought us to a village in which again a new 

 tribe, the Miaotses, presented itself, with inconsiderable dis- 

 tinguishing marks, 

 chiefly in a loose 

 jacket without but- 

 tons worn by the 

 women. I could 

 not here find any 

 natives who under- 

 stood Chinese, and 

 was therefore unable 

 to obtain precise 

 information in their 



After the Chinese, 

 the natives of 

 Yunnan are divided 

 into the Ijen, who 

 are the subject 

 Lolos, and the 

 Mantzes, who are 

 the free. The Ijen 

 comprise the Hei-y, 

 the Pa-y, the Pai-y, 

 the Lolos, the Teou- 

 lous, the Cha-jen, the 

 Noung-jen, the Poula, the Manjen, etc. Kouitchan is the parent 

 district of the Yaos and the Miaos, who are sometimes met with 

 in Yunnan. 



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Harrower, Miaotsc Tribe. 



