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a jacket & a tall turban. The material is a black serge or cotton cloth. These women have good features & are much neater & more comly [[sic]] than their Chinese sisters. They are rather stocky with heavy legs & broad naked feet. We stopped for tiffin on the river margin & I saw many Shan men & boys come to the river & bath & swim. Women also appeared bathing together in groups & this I have no doubt is a ^[[daily]] custom. The Chinese are never seen bathing either men or women. At 4 P.M. we reached Hsiao Hsin Kai - a