Burma . nny race. The first mark of their settlements is the fencing in of every they are great gardeners, and have better occasion for fences than theBurmans. With less freedom and elbow-room, not having extensive alluvialplains in their country, the Shans are driven to the expedients of terracing andirrigating the soles of the mountain valleys and favourable parts of the undulatingland. By these means they render areas available for permanent (wet) cultiva-tion of rice, which would otherwise only give a taungya crop once in ten some places they get two crops a year. The Sha
Burma . nny race. The first mark of their settlements is the fencing in of every they are great gardeners, and have better occasion for fences than theBurmans. With less freedom and elbow-room, not having extensive alluvialplains in their country, the Shans are driven to the expedients of terracing andirrigating the soles of the mountain valleys and favourable parts of the undulatingland. By these means they render areas available for permanent (wet) cultiva-tion of rice, which would otherwise only give a taungya crop once in ten some places they get two crops a year. The Shans breed cattle extensively,and breed very fine are the best metallur-gists of the north of thePeninsula. They excel theBurmans in cane and bamboowork, but are inferior to themin woodwork. The Shancanoes on the Salween teak, merely dug out(No. 320). The Shans areexpert boatmen and tim-ber raftsmen. The ferrymanstands on one foot on thepoop of the canoe with along-handled paddle, whichU. 327. SHAN-CHINESE. 146 BURMA
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