FOOTNOTES
[1] "'A Laung,' one who is progressing toward a divine state; an incipient deity."—Cushing's "Shan Dictionary," p. 586.
[2] Kam, luck, or fate.
[3] The Shans call the two front feet of a quadruped "hands." The digits are called "fingers" not "toes."
[4] The sacred peepul tree.
[5] The Shans do not usually say that a king "rules" over a country, but the expression generally used is that he "eats" it; a very suggestive and alas! too often only too true expression.
[6] Literally, "The counselor who fell from his rank," i. e., was degraded.