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thru level rice fields & an occasional village.  The huts here have high & steep roofs of grass thatch.  This eastern side of the valley is well cultivated but the fields have often the appearance of being allowed to lie fallow. At 5 P.M. we reached the chief village of Meng-ting & camped in some rice fields nearby.  The headman is a youth about 17 yrs, the office being administered by a Chinaman of middle age.  Many Shan priests were seen here dressed in deep yellow togas.  Every Shan family must furnish one son to the priesthood, who educate him but he need not remain permanently attached to the church.  At dark we heard the priests singing the service which sounded much like that of the Catholic church as regards its rythum.