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living to the north-west of Tengyueh,of whom nine were men and three were women. 
We are fully conscious of the danger of drawing conclusions from so limited a field of 
research, but great care has been taken in the selection of suitable subjects, and we 
trust that this work may render investigation less difficult for future enquirers and 
may possibly prove a small but useful link in the great chain of research for the 
grouping of the tribes on the Burma-China frontier. 
In conclusion, the present writers are of opinion that the evidence points clearly 
to some close relationship between the Fisu and the Folos, 
Conclusion. . 
and, although our present information is an insufficient 
foundation, it is believed thatthe two tribes will be traced to the same stock and linked 
at last in one of the great families which will claim these disunited and wandering 
tribesmen. For the Lahu, the Woni and such other branches there is much to confirm 
the belief that they are half-breeds, who have drifted from the homes of the main tribe 
and, whilst retaining the language of the more highly developed and purer Folo stock, 
have lost their tall figures and clean-cut features in mingling with the older and more 
primitive races, amongst whom their settlements may have been numerically small 
and such as are installed by right of conquest. We take this opportunity of expressing 
our indebtedness to our predecessors, the Consuls, the Frontier and Military Officials 
and the few travellers into Yunnan, all of whom have found time for some contribu- 
tion to our knowledge of these tribes from the rush of a hard and busy life in a land 
where both Nature and Man are more picturesque and interesting than inviting or 
kind. It is hoped that the actual evidence gathered in Lisu homes of Fisu lives and 
customs may prove suggestive and helpful to those students whose interests have 
been awakened for this medley of races and whose lines have been cast in more 
favoured places than the mountains of the Burma-China Frontier. 
