[420] R. C. Temple, Art. "Burma," Hastings, Ency. Religion and Ethics, 1910.
[421] Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 9.
[422] Prince Henri d'Orléans writes "que les Singphos et les Katchins [Kakhyens] ne font qu'un, que le premier mot est thai et le second birman." Du Tonkin aux Indes, 1898, p. 311. This is how the ethnical confusion in these borderlands gets perpetuated. Singpho is not Thai, i.e. Shan or Siamese, but a native word as here explained.
[423] John Anderson, Mandalay to Momein, 1876, p. 131.
[424] Three skulls discovered by M. Mansuy in a cave at Pho-Binh-Gia (Indo-China) associated with Neolithic culture were markedly dolichocephalic, resembling in some respects the Cro-Magnon race of the Reindeer period. Cf. R. Verneau, L'Anthropologie, XX. 1909.
[425] The Loyal Karens of Burma, 1887.
[426] R. C. Temple, Academy, Jan. 29, 1887, p. 72.
[427] Forbes, Languages of Further India, p. 61.
[428] Ibid. p. 55.
[429] G. W. Bird, Wanderings in Burma, 1897, p. 335.