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A LISSOO OF THE SAl^WIN VALI,E;y 



large village for this country, consisting 

 of some 40 houses of the true Lissoo 

 type, constructed of rough logs and bam- 

 boo matting, raised on piles, with one 

 room only and a tumble-down verandah. 

 A stone hearth occupies the center of the 

 room, and around this the family eat and 

 sleep. The head-man was a typical old 

 Lissoo, tall and thin, with a close-shaven 

 gray head, bleary eyes, an aquiline nose, 

 huge earrings of silver and cornelian, and 

 a profusion of bracelets and beads hung 



about his person 

 hempen clothes. 



and over his dirty 



SINGLE-ROPE BRIDGES 



It was near here that we first saw a 

 single rope bridge across the Salwin. 

 These single-rope bridges of the Upper 

 Salwin are far more difficult to cross 

 than the double ropes of the Mekong, by 

 which the passenger always starts from a 

 higher level than that at which he lands 

 on the other side, and is thus rapidly car- 



