Show ALONG THE INDIAN FRONTIER kachians are a wild and warlike people but are most hospitable to travelers traveler hidden la in the mountains on both side ide of the frontier road are villages of Ka kachians chins a wild and warlike race which causes much anxiety to the chinese and to the peaceful shans inhabiting the neighboring valleys writes archibald rose british consul at china in an article describing the chinese frontier of india the men are keen looking fellows who spend their days in sharpening their dhas ahas or long two handed banded swords their nights in drinking and in harrying tha marches the burdens of life are literally borne by their women folk long trains of whom are met along the roads carrying on their backs great baskets of grain depending from a strap across ther ore beads while their hands bands are busy spinning strands of cotton yarn or er weaving a straw bracelet for their sweethearts as they toll up the mountain slopes they wear a short kilt supported by numbers of loose rattan girdles the lobes of their ears are pierced and distended to carry long tubes of silver or rolls of red cloth and their faces are coarsened by hard times they are hospitable to people these offering a welcome to any passing traveler without question or hope of reward this spirit of hospitality pita lity indeed Is carried to a point which might almost be considered extravagance trava gance I 1 remember a case at a recent frontier meeting in which a kachan appeared as the complainant he had bad accepted an invitation vi to dinner dined not wisely but too well and fallen down a precipice on his way home the result was a broken leg and to in conEe consequence quence he now appeared in court to sue bue his host tor for damages the erring host paid up quite cheerfully and the international Inel incident dent was thus amicably settled over the body ol of a sacrificial pig |