Shans at home . omes. Starvingpeople do not exist, and there are few unemployed,because any man or woman may easily earn a liveli-hood by asking for jungle land, by clearing and cul-tivating, and by selling the produce that is grownupon it. In October, caravans of mules, laden with basketsfull of persimmons and walnuts, come from Ytin-nanas soon as the rains are over. Walnuts have beenimported from very early times, and Shans tell manystories of small frontier wars arising from the extor-tionate demands of custom-house officials, who leviedexorbitant export or import duties on this fruit whent
Shans at home . omes. Starvingpeople do not exist, and there are few unemployed,because any man or woman may easily earn a liveli-hood by asking for jungle land, by clearing and cul-tivating, and by selling the produce that is grownupon it. In October, caravans of mules, laden with basketsfull of persimmons and walnuts, come from Ytin-nanas soon as the rains are over. Walnuts have beenimported from very early times, and Shans tell manystories of small frontier wars arising from the extor-tionate demands of custom-house officials, who leviedexorbitant export or import duties on this fruit whenthe merchants brought the nuts across the frontier. There is no lack of vegetables in Shan are several kinds of pumpkins and gourds, alsocucumbers, chilies, ginger, egg-plants, tomatoes, severalkinds of beans, peas (picked when they are overripeand hard), onions, and potatoes, the latter small andnot very good. There are three kinds of maize; thecolours of the grains when ripe are orange, white, and. FOOD 141 black. The latter are most esteemed; the cobs arebrought to market already roasted or boiled. There are many yams and other tuberous rootswhich, when found growing wild in the jungle, arebrought to the villages for sale ; also leaves of manykinds of trees and bushes used in flavouring curry. Lotus seeds are considered a great delicacy. Theheads are brought to market, five or six tied togetherin each bunch. Each head, or thalamus, looks notunlike the rose of a large watering-can. The seeds,when young, have a nutty flavour, and when friedmake a good vegetable. Many kinds of fungi are brought to the markets, bothfreshly picked and dried. The fruit and vegetable section of a Shan marketis most picturesque. It is open to the sky, and thepeople sit on tiny bamboo stools under the shade oftheir big hats, sometimes holding their yellow paperumbrellas over their heads, the different kinds of fruitsmassed around them in glowing heaps on the ground. A more unpleasant div
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