FRENCH INDO-CHINA

direct and frank mountaineers refreshing after Annamite in
and dissimulation. Even their extreme indolence is forgiven,

The Mans are the tribe next largest to the Thais, and they
about twenty thousand. They are related to the people whom 4*
Chinese call Yaos, who live in South China. Theirs is a totem relgbg
and family organization. They are nomads who live in the differed
mountain fastnesses, cultivating great mystery in regard to
customs. They are not rekted to the Thais, whom they detest, hri
they are greatly influenced by them. The Thais return the complaneal
by calling them a race of sorcerers. The French policy towards tin
Mans has been to try to attach them to the soil, and to educate
out of their destructive method of fanning by rays.

The Lus are a Mongol people, pushed southward by success!??
invasions until they finally settled themselves in the Sip-Song~PaB«
Though they are rekted to the Thai group, they are on a much Iowa
economic level, but their literacy extends to the women of their trite,
and is remarkably widespread. Their religion is Buddhism, adulterated
by spirit worship. Their social organization is strictly feudal, and
occupations hunting, smoking, and drinking.

The Mem live in the highest mountains, and in very dispersd

groups throughout Northern Tonkin and Laos. Though related tn

tfaek neighbours and to the tribes of South China, with whom they hm

cultural ties, they live in completely separate villages. The fact tfatf

cannot acclimatize themselves to aa altitude under 2,500 feet bm

them from absorption by surrounding peoples. Their
orgmkatioii resembles thai of the Lus, They are divided into

peoples, and like them they are great animal breeders. They aft
the greatest poppy 'growers of Tonkin. Like so many of
prinaitives they detest their neighbours, particularly the Chinese and
AmMmitesf whom they call "men of paper/" The Chinese* in turn, cd
"unf^yveniabte vermin,51 but the Annaipites more kindly descriW
m "son* aŁ like untiled sail/' The French have tried to
to die »fl, to cure1 them* of their nomadic and ray habits, and
to the Immense Influence the sorcerers have orar thenk

The Meo of 1919 stirred up by am inspired

Though not an important
in such country -was too risiy a

to The used in suppressing the

to the and, reduce tie tillages by

3%