Burma . 354. KAREN CHINESE t57 pay enormous sums. Secret agents freelyprovide opportunities for lads to establish thecraving for the drug, the retail price of whichis double its weight in silver. No Burmanhas ever taken an opium farm. Opium-eater{beinzd) is the worst thing a Burman can sayof a man. The people deplore beyond every-thing the maintenance of facilities for thespread of this vice, almost unknown before,a capital offence in fact. Most of the Chinesesettlers have Burman wives, to whom theygive a life of perfect ease (p. i6i). The China-Burman half-breeds, issuing as they do f
Burma . 354. KAREN CHINESE t57 pay enormous sums. Secret agents freelyprovide opportunities for lads to establish thecraving for the drug, the retail price of whichis double its weight in silver. No Burmanhas ever taken an opium farm. Opium-eater{beinzd) is the worst thing a Burman can sayof a man. The people deplore beyond every-thing the maintenance of facilities for thespread of this vice, almost unknown before,a capital offence in fact. Most of the Chinesesettlers have Burman wives, to whom theygive a life of perfect ease (p. i6i). The China-Burman half-breeds, issuing as they do fromdistinct varieties of the same human group,may be expected to unite the best qualitiesof the parent stocks (the reverse of whichholds for the Aryan-Burman). This mixedrace is believed to have a great future in Bur-ma. The sons are brought up as Chinamen, 356. RED KARENS—KARENNI. , , , , t. -r-. i the daughters as Burmans. But the men arenot suffered to wear the plaited qume of the pure Chinese ; they merely coil the
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