"The women are called
'hens' by their husbands, and the male and female children 'cock children'
and 'hen children' respectively."
LI., p. 99 n. "M. Garnier informs me that Mien Kwe or Mien Tisong is
the name always given in Yun Nan to that kingdom."
Mien Tisong is surely faulty, and must likely be corrected in Mien
Chung, proved especially at the Ming Period. (PELLIOT, Bul. Ecole franc.
Ext. Orient, IV., July-Sept, 1904, p. 772.)
LI., LII., pp. 98 seq.
WAR AGAINST THE KING OF MIEN.
The late Edouard HUBER of Hanoi, writing from Burmese sources, throws new
light on this subject: "In the middle of the thirteenth century, the
Burmese kingdom included Upper and Lower Burma, Arakan and Tenasserim;
besides the Court of Pagan was paramount over several feudatory Shan
states, until the valleys of the Yunnanese affluents of the Irawadi to the
N.E., and until Zimme at the least to the E. Narasihapati, the last king
of Pagan who reigned over the whole of this territory, had already to
fight the Talaings of the Delta and the governor of Arakan who wished to
be independent, when, in 1271, he refused to receive Kublai's ambassadors
who had come to call upon him to recognize himself as a vassal of China.
The first armed conflict took place during the spring of 1277 in the Nam
Ti valley; it is the battle of Nga-caung-khyam of the Burmese Chronicles,
related by Marco Polo, who, by mistake, ascribes to Nasr ed-Din the merit
of this first Chinese victory.
