[2038] Meade, loc. cit. p. 168.
[2039] Marshall, loc. cit. pp. 110, et seq.
[2040] Shortt, in ‘Trans. Ethn. Soc.,’ N. S. vol. vii. p. 254.
[2041] Ibid., p. 254.
[2042] Metz, loc. cit. p. 15.
[2043] Shortt, in ‘Trans. Ethn. Soc.,’ N. S. vol. vii. p. 233.
[2044] Polak, loc. cit. vol. i. pp. 200, 201, 216, et seq.
[2045] Dr. Helfer also thinks (‘Jour. As. Soc. Bengal,’ vol. vii. p. 856) that, among the Karens of the Tenasserim Provinces, close intermarrying is the reason why ‘they are a subdued, timid, effeminate, diminishing race.'
[2046] Gason, loc. cit. pp. 260, et seq.
[2047] Richardson, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 406.