Burmese (including the Chin) and thé Shan. The
Karen, who are of kin, stand as yet in à category
apart. The Kachin are of the same stock as the
Burmese, but their descent into Burma is of recent
date.
THE MUN
A hundred and fifty
years ago, the Mun were
still a people, and Englishmen
and Frenchmen
leaned now towards the
one, now towards the
other of these conflicting
races. But to-day the
Mun are all but absorbed
in the Burmese race, and
three hundred thousand
people alone represent in
Burma a race whose
civilisation once extended
from the Assam hills to
Annam. Broadly speaking
they are now indis-
. , . - P A LA U N G WOMAN A T SHWEGU. FA IR tinguishable except as to
language from the Burmese. People who know them
well can, however, distinguish between them; and on the
whole the Mun is apt to be fairer and stouter than the
true Burman. O f kin with the Mun, but separated from
them by a wide space of country, are the Palaung,
