FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



before, Tsekou Lissous frequenting the valley of the Salwen, but 

 several distinct tribes with their own language and customs. 



The Loutses belong to an interesting race hardly met with 

 in the latitude of Tsekou. They are bounded on the north, at 

 two or three days' distance from that place, by the folk of the 



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Kioutse Types. 



Tsarong, scattered among whom a few rare Loutse families are 



to be found. A few days to the south their limits are with the 



Lissous, of whose incursions we had heard so much in the course 



of our ascent of the Mekong. The Loutses therefore occupy the 



mountains between the Mekong and Assam. At the height at 



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