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Title: Mandalay to Momien: A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Anderson, John, 1833-1900 Sladen, E. B. (Edward Bosc), 1827-1890 Browne, Horace Albert, 1832-1914
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
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e by the Shans of the Hothavalley, who are the itinerant smiths of the country.Other arms are a long matchlock, and a cross-bow, with arrows poisoned with the juice of anaconitum. They are much used in hunting ; the fleshround the wound being cut out, the rest of the animalis eaten without danger. An invariable article ofequipment is an embroidered bag worn over the rightshoulder, containing pipe, tobacco, lime and betelbox, money, and a bamboo flask of sheroo. A mostingenious apparatus supplies a light for the constantpipe. It resembles a childs popgun, and consists ofa small cylinder four inches long, open at one end,into which is very tightly fitted a piston, with acup-shaped cavity at the lower end. In it, a smallpellet of tinder is placed, the piston is driven downsmartly, and as quickly withdrawn, when the tinderis found to be ignited. It is worth recording that the men invariablysmoke opium, but not to excess; rarely, if ever, didwe see them use tobacco for smoking, though they
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KAKHVEX AND SHAN PIPES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ETC. Fig. 1. Kaibyen laitle for prcp;iriiig opium.i. Kakliyen opium forceps.3. i. Kakliyen cylinder and piston for striking fire.5. .^lian flute witli gourd moutlipiece.tJ. kakliyen doulde flute. 7. Kakliyen opium hookah (bamlxio). 8. Kakhyeu opium pipe. Fig. 9 Kukhyen opium hookah, the mouthpiecemade of the underground stem and thewater receptacle of the segment of a re-m.irkable liamlxx.) with swollen intemodes. 10. Chinese biimboo lamp. 11. Shan i>owder flju^k.Vl. Shan violin. l.^. Bow for ditto.14. Shan guitar. To face paje 134. ARMS AND IMPLEMENTS. 135 were addicted to chewing it. The juice of the poppy,exuding from incisions made in the green capsules,is collected on plantain leaves, which are dried, andin this form the opium is smoked either in hookahsmade of the segment of a peculiarly shaped bambooor in brass pipes of Chinese manufacture. Whetherthe cultivation and use of opium have spread fromAssam or from Yunnan is uncertain,

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