Tounghoo Women by Ellen B. Mason

Mr. Mason has just written me: "I have lately heard one item of much interest to me, from the Red Karen country, and that is, the Eastern Red Karens, who are under Burmese influence, are very anxious to have _Bau-a_, (Mrs. Milne's Bghai Karen Missionary from Tounghoo) go and teach school among them. He has now a large school in a village as far beyond Kaypo-gyee, the western saubwa, as Tee-tu-poo is from town, (two days travel.)"

This old Kaypo-gyee is an independent Prince, having one of the most charming countries, full of teak trees, on the lofty table land of the Salwen. All the Red Karens are estimated at about 200,000; and they have traditions of _Se-a-pay_, whom they say created the world and to whom they make sacrifices. Mr. Mason thinks this name is _Jehovah_. They came down from China or Tartary, they say, forty generations ago, and they are quite Shan-like, having mingled so much with them.