The
Chinaman Of The District Crosses The Valley Daily Without Fear, But The
Chinaman From A Distance Knows That He Will Either Die Or His Wife Will
Prove Unfaithful.
If he is compelled to go, the usual course is to write
to his wife and tell her that
She is free to look out for another husband.
Having made up his mind that he will die, I have no doubt that he often
dies through sheer funk." (R. Logan JACK, Back Blocks of China, 1904, p.
205.)
L., pp. 84, 89.
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ZARDANDAN.
We read in Huber's paper already mentioned (Bul. Ecole Ext. Orient,
Oct.-Dec., 1909, p. 665): "The second month of the twelfth year (1275), Ho
T'ien-tsio, governor of the Kien Ning District, sent the following
information: 'A-kouo of the Zerdandan tribe, knows three roads to enter
Burma, one by T'ien pu ma, another by the P'iao tien, and the third by the
very country of A-kouo; the three roads meet at the 'City of the Head of
the River' [Kaung si] in Burma." A-kouo, named elsewhere A-ho, lived at
Kan-ngai. According to Huber, the Zardandan road is the actual caravan
road to Bhamo on the left of the Nam Ti and Ta Ping; the second route
would be by the Tien ma pass and Nam hkam, the P'iao tien route is the
road on the right bank of the Nam Ti and the Ta Ping leading to Bhamo
via San Ta and Man Waing.
The Po Yi and Ho Ni tribes are mentioned in the Yuan Shi, s.a. 1278.
(PELLIOT.)
L., p. 90.
Mr. H.A. OTTEWILL tells me in a private note that the Kachins or Singphos
did not begin to reach Burma in their emigration from Tibet until last
century or possibly this century. They are not to be found east of the
Salwen River.
L., p. 91.
COUVADE.
There is a paper on the subject in the Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie (1911,
pp. 546-63) by Hugo Kunicke, Das sogennante, "Mannerkindbett," with a
bibliography not mentioning Yule's Marco Polo, Vinson, etc. We may also
mention: De la "Covada" en Espana. Por el Prof. Dr. Telesforo de
Aranzadi, Barcelona (Anthropos, T.V., fasc. 4, Juli-August, 1910, pp.
775-8).
L., p. 92 n.
I quoted Prof. E.H. Parker (China Review, XIV., p. 359), who wrote
that the "Langszi are evidently the Szi lang, one of the six
Chao, but turned upside down." Prof. Pelliot (Bul. Ecole franc.
Ext. Orient, IV., July-Sept., 1904, p. 771) remarks: "Mr. Parker is
entirely wrong. The Chao of Shi-lang, which was annexed by Nan Chao
during the eighth century, was in the western part of Yun Nan, not in Kwei
chau; we have but little information on the subject." He adds: "The custom
of Couvade is confirmed for the Lao of Southern China by the following
text of the Yi wu chi of Fang Ts'ien-li, dating at least from the
time of the T'ang dynasty:
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