the mercy of their raids. They were more habituated
to individual war than the more civilised Burmese, and
their protection lay in the rough hills which they inhabit,
and in the poverty of their country, which is of small
attraction to people better furnished with the good
things of this world. The Chin, if .anything, made a
more vigorous resistance because they realised that the
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final conquest of their country was at issue j the Kachin
had an extensive hinterland to which they knew that
they could retreat. But of the two the Kachin is
the sterner man, with a greater future before him
than the Chin. And this is illustrated by the relationship
, to Burma in which we'found them. The Chin
lived in his hills, making raids only at intervals on the
plain country at his feet. But the Kachin was steadily
advancing, dominating the peoples before him, and
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