Thursday, January 17, 2008

continue from the last post

The mongoloid stock, stand-eyed and yellow-skinned, was never found only in china where it now has its principal home. It was reaching the indo-Chinese peninsula, blending with earlier stocks, when history begins. And they ha already spread oversea, those earlier stocks Even today, over a vast area, from the mainland to the remotest south sea island among races totally unaware of each semblances in physical, handicraft and custom. The ancient bronze drum which announce the king Siam’s presence in his audience chamber are the type still use by the rustic Karen people of Burma and by many an obscure tribe in the island of Indonesia; the Dyak in Borneo, the Bontoc in the Philippines, practice the same headhunting as the war in their Burma mountain fastness ;and among the civilization races the décor of the dance are the same as in Bali as in Burma there is the same sex equality, the woman are veiled and free among the Javanese, who are mahomedan,as among the Burmese, who are Buddhist. to be continue in the next post

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