Burma . e provided with musket and ammunition, butno further accoutrements. Latterly the kings body-guards wore a sort ofuniform (No. 9). Cannon are mentioned as early as 1350, and a centurylater, matchlocks were in use. Csesar Frederick in 1569 speaks of pikes andarquebuses and good cannon. When dis-banded, the soldiers had to surrendertheir muskets, but numbers were smug-gled away, to add to the rigour of theguerilla waged by brigands and theseverity of the villagers retaliation. The military leader is called Bo ; thecivil governor or minister of the king,Wtm, which means a burden or
Burma . e provided with musket and ammunition, butno further accoutrements. Latterly the kings body-guards wore a sort ofuniform (No. 9). Cannon are mentioned as early as 1350, and a centurylater, matchlocks were in use. Csesar Frederick in 1569 speaks of pikes andarquebuses and good cannon. When dis-banded, the soldiers had to surrendertheir muskets, but numbers were smug-gled away, to add to the rigour of theguerilla waged by brigands and theseverity of the villagers retaliation. The military leader is called Bo ; thecivil governor or minister of the king,Wtm, which means a burden or former might be a young man, thelatter but rarely so. Age and influenceare almost synonymous in Burma. If theelders—headmen, IMyi—are agreed upona thing, it is done. The village eldersrepresent the fundamental substratum ofgovernment in Burma. They are con-sulted by the officials on matters affecting , -r rr • 1 ^^^- BURMAN OFFICIAL RECEIVING the people, whose natural, if unofficial, VILLAGE SYSTEM 165
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