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THE HEI YIAO ĐỀ PHỤ.

The Hei or Black Miao, so-called from the dark clothes they wear-chiefly inhabit the Northern region of Kweichow, and at one time-fome hundred or so years ago were the principal and most powerful of all the Miao tribes. ÁBB result of thoir struggle with the Chinese

caused by alleged extortion on the part of the latter--they were consider- ably decimated and scattered, and the population of the tribe now numbers only some estimated 100,000. This struggle. which lasted some five years, was only ended by the superior type of foreign gun, which the Chinese brought to bear on them, against which the primitive. weapons of the Miao were of little avail. Had it not been for this fact, and also that the Chinese were nided by the Hwa Miao, thore is no doubt but that the struggle would have gone on for years longor, as the Phu fought bravely against their better armed opponents.

There is an annual gathering of the Mino tribes which takes place at the first moon of the Chinese third month, when representatives of all the various clans are present and take part in the festivities, which consist chinfly of music, dancing and drinking to celebrate the harvesting of the Spring crops. Great drunkenness is said to prevail at this festival, which is looked upon with great contempt by the Chinese, who regard the Miaos as

A greatly inferior and degenerato race.

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The dancing which takes place, and is chiefly indulged in by the women, said to be very graceful, being very slow and solemn in nature; but this is very difficult to maintain, as it is practically impossible for a foreigner to witness such

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timid owing to their oppression by the Chinese From what I have seen of them, they appear to be a very harmless, quiet and gentle people. The women are very skillful embroiderers, and they make all their own fancy-coloured embroidered garmonts, those worn by the Hwa Mino females being the most picturesque. They wea also some very finely worked silver ornaments, such as rings, clasps, ear- ring bracelets and necklets, some of which are quite works of art. As these are made solely by themselves for inter- tribal se, however, it is almost an impossibility to purchase any specimens. I tried several times, but without avail.

The dress of the Hei Miao male consists of short loose trousers of dark material, surmounted by a short jacket with tight sleeves of the same dark taxture. They usually wear a thick silver ring round the neck and a large silver earring in the left ear. The dress of the Women is, however, much

more picturesque. A very pretty turban is worn round the head, different tribes affecting different colours. The costume consists of a kimono-shaped blouse or short jacket, and a kind of pleated kilt reach- ing to just below the knees. The bottom of the kilt and the wrists and back of the sleeves are ornamented with silk embroidery. The legs from the knees to the ankles are wound round with white and blus cloth in the form of putties, the feet being encased in straw sandles of special workmanship. Of lator yours the Chinese have endeavoured to get the Miaotze to wear the Chinese dress, and in some cases, chiefly amongst the poorer tribes, this has been effected with the men, but has met with scanty

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out, as there is a vast field in this part JOINT SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS TO AND FROM JAPAN PORTS. THUSTRALIA AND CHINA. of China for the ethnologist and philologist to work upon. Although these Mino tribes are generally supposed to be confeed to the Province of Kwelchow, quite a number of families are to he found in Northern Kwangai, South- eastern Szuchuan, and different parts of Yunnan It was in the northern part of Kwaichow where the Hei Nino suffered such decimation at the hands of the Chinese soldiery, and many ruins of superior. stone dwellings give evidence of the desolation and devastation caused by the Gerce struggle which took place. Nothing but a huge graveyard now remains of what was at one time a prosperous region. As far as the eye can see, day after day, stretches miles of antilled plains and rolling hills, where the Miantze peasantry used to till the fields and tend their · flocks All that into an industrious and fewo povarty stricken, grass-thatched stone dwellings and villages scattered here and there along the highways patched-ap former Miaotze dwellings sheltering the ragged descendants of a now mixed degraded opium-sodden people: truly sorry result of the Chinese subjugation and colonization of Kweichow

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Kweiches leads up a gentle slope through a very poor dilapidated city with houses must cover an area of some three hundred a huge graveyard to the Sub-Prefectural falling in ruins, and with only one square miles in extent, but at present, City of An Stain Fu, which lies in an thoroughfare. This is the last town of as there are now no means of exporting amphitheatre of barren limestone mon any importance in this region until one it, it is much cheaper than wood or tains, and the contour of which resembles crosses the Yunnan frontier, some ten charcoal, bringing only some: 200 to 300 in many respects that of the region in Kwang described en route to Kweilin days journey westward.

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Froni the Bastern City gate one has a very fine view of the great mart of the

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ACROSS THE KWEICHOW PLATRATI. For some 250 miles westwards the road

Interest allowed on Current Accounta Minotze tribes, 4 broad street runs winds through the most desolats mou in the earthen floors of their huts. The Deposits received on terms which may through the city, and is the principal tain wilderness imaginable; waves of thoroughfare, containing many Ane conical hills and barren troeless moun strong sulphurous fumes given off from and on application

K. TSUPZURABARA, Manager [HUNG NGOI SAN PCshops and stalls well-stocked with all tain ranges, stretching as far as the eye the firea in rooms which have no ventila-

Hongkong 19th February, 1914 (Chinese Daily Press), kinds of foreign and fancy gouds, dis- could see, seemingly blocking the route tion, except through the doorways which played for the throngs of Miao which to Yunnan, such that one is forced to are closed in winter time, are enough to | asphyxiate ta strongest person, and it joate one another at all times of the day realize the keen struggle for existence must have a very deleterious effect upali vaxes, from the age of six to 14, clad in THE in this broad highway. Here on a bright that these mountain tribes, scattered hare sunny day one 60s almost every type of and there in the narrow valleys, experi- their constitutions, as they sit huddled rags many naked, barefooted were Minotre engaged in bartering their ence on these barren undulations that round these fres in the winter months encountered every day, carrying loads than themselves struggling wares. The city has, however, greatly form the plateau of Kweichow..

when snow covers the ground for three heavier deteriorated since the suppression of the AN IMMENSE COAL DEPOSIT

months and makes outdoor work almost through the snow, up and down and impossible.

over mountains, some over 1,000ft. high, opium traffic; it being in those days

The whole of this region, however,

How- truly a sight pitiful to witness. considered the richest city in the proving

Twenty covers a very rich carboniferous deposit next to the provincial capital.

It is during these winter months that ever, this is but typical of the berce miles westwards through a series of of which outcroppings are visible every-the natives are engaged in garnering a

struggle for existence which goes on in Documentranslated from or into Classical valleys and rolling hille, built on a hill where, and are worked in a primitive supply of coal which usey stack in pits for these wild mountain regions year in and Stop, on the city of Chen Ning Chow way by the natives. This coal region the following winter. - Children of kolle

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