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THE KING’S SHADOW
Gate of Myth and Power Book 2
K. M. SHEA
THE KING’S SHADOW
Copyright © 2023 by K. M. Shea

Magiford Supernatural City is a registered trademark of K. M. Shea

LLC.

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Edited by Deborah Grace White

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced

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except in the case of quotations embodied in articles and reviews.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents

are either the product of the author’s imagination, or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
historic events is entirely coincidental.

www.kmshea.com
 CONTENTS

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Epilogue

Afterword
Chloe’s adventure continues in…
Other books by K. M. Shea
About the Author
 CHAPTER ONE

Chloe

T here were only a few times in my life when things felt so out of
control, none of it seemed real. Previously, I would have said
the time the Curia Cloisters told me I was on my own in terms of
protection from other supernaturals was undoubtedly the worst
memory I had.
However, I was pretty sure Noctus—the King of the Mors elves—
informing me I was something called a shadow, which was the only
natural enemy of elves, just shattered that experience.
I tried to form words—thoughts, even. But my brain had chosen
to take a holiday in an attempt to reject the vital information I had
just learned.
“I…what?” I tried to say more, but my tongue was thick and
numb, and I couldn’t move my mouth.
Noctus ignored my reaction and pushed open the door we’d
stopped in front of. “This will be your room.”
I couldn’t even turn to look at it, I was too stunned.
I’d been lying to Noctus, leading him to believe I was a mere cat.
That alone was a big enough sin to inspire an elf to kill me, but to
add to my iniquities it turned out I was basically his nemesis?
 The world had it out for me. That was the only reasonable
explanation.
This is beyond worst-case scenario. This is catastrophic.
Noctus watched me, tilting his head slightly so the flickering
lights from the hanging lanterns caught the glints of gold in his hair.
“Wait, I’m sorry. I apologize. Please. I think there’s been a
mistake.” I clasped my hands in front of me as I tried to kick my
brain into high gear—I couldn’t afford to further insult him. “I’m
not…I can’t be what you think I am.”
“There’s no mistaking it,” Noctus said. “The shadows are the only
supernaturals who have the powers you possess.”
I shook my head. “Except the Curia Cloisters don’t even know
what I am. If I was a shadow, they’d know.”
“Not necessarily,” Noctus said.
A door creaked open, and Aristide swaggered into the hallway.
“Noctus,” he called. “Who are you talking to? And where’s Ama? I
have a tuna treat one of your people gave me for her last night, and
it’s stinking my room up.” He seemingly gazed past us, his eyes
unseeing as he tried to size me up—he was probably listening to my
heartbeat.
Vampires didn’t have as good of hearing as werewolves, but they
had a special affinity for heartbeats, given what they were.
“Aristide,” Noctus said. “This is Chloe.”
“Ah—the Book Nookery clerk?”
“Yes. And Ama.”
“What?” A candle in one of the lanterns hanging over our heads
flickered, casting shadows across Aristide’s slackened jaw.
Another door farther down the hallway opened. “Hey, what’s all
the yelling about? I thought we were done for the night.” Ker
yawned widely as she poked her head into the hallway, then
retreated a step when she saw me. “What—who?”
I nervously peered up at Noctus—I was going to follow him on all
of this. I didn’t have a hope of escaping this place, and there wasn’t
a point as long as I wore my collar that let Noctus track my location.
Unfortunately, that collar could only be removed by Noctus, and I
had a feeling he wasn’t going to do that anytime soon.
 Noctus shut the bedroom door. “We’ll meet you two in the
library.”
“The library? Not your study?” I hurried after Noctus, following
him back down the spiral staircase.
He silently led me to a different part of the house—one I had
never ventured to because I didn’t want to see any skeletons in his
closets.
Unfortunately, it seems like I’m one of those skeletons.
When Noctus opened a set of double doors, I obediently followed
him, then froze when the sensation of magic surrounded me,
inspiring me to finally look up.
Noctus’s library was immense. It was easily the size of three or
four Book Nookeries put together—complete with a second floor that
stretched high over my head.
The ceiling was mostly glass, which showed the night sky outside
the villa, and the edge of the mountain the building was nestled
against, but every inch of the walls was either decorated with a
fresco painting, mosaic, or stone carving—most of which were
statue-like carvings of winged, rearing horses or burning phoenixes.
At the center of the room a glass globe that was as large as I
was tall spun in the air. I could feel magic radiating off it, and
something swirled in its depths.
A flowering tree surrounded by a moat of aqua water grew at the
far end of the library, and enormous lanterns that twinkled with soft
light gave the room a warm feeling.
On the second story, walkways with wood railings led from
platform to platform, and as I watched, the platforms themselves
moved, going to a new set of staircases that connected to a different
part of the library.
But the most impressive part was the endless rows and shelves
of books. Ranging from pixie size to troll appropriate, books lined the
shelves—some sparkling as if they were recently purchased, while
others were torn and tattered.
Library wasn’t a strong enough word. This place almost felt like a
monument to books and knowledge…and magic.
“Chloe,” Noctus snapped, breaking me out of my reverie.
 Oh gosh, did I just make him madder? I need to avoid that. The
best possible scenario I can hope for right now is that he throws me
in a dungeon or something instead of killing me.
The optimistic part of me dared to hope he might be less severe
than that, but rarely was the optimistic part of me brave enough to
hope since it was never right, so I brutally kicked those thoughts
down.
“Sorry.” I scurried after him, following him to a small circle of
chairs.
I gingerly sat down on one as I struggled to sort through all the
magic in the place.
I could feel the magic in the books—there was elvish magic in
them to be sure. I’d recognize that sharp magic that poked me in
the ribs anywhere. But the buzzing feeling in my fingers marked out
wizard magic, and the silky brush of fae magic tickled my elbow.
If I’d known this place existed, this is where I would have come
when I was trying to figure out how to get my collar off. Not that it
would have been much help. The collar Noctus put on me was
undoubtedly elvish, and while surely one of the elvish books in here
could help me, I wouldn’t be able to read it.
The doors opened again, revealing Ker and Aristide. “What’s
going on?” Ker asked.
Aristide settled himself in an armchair covered with embroidered
flowers and vines. “Yes, what do you mean by…this?”
Noctus glanced at me.
I shrank in my chair. I should have to explain—I’m the one that
lied to them. But…hopefully I survive this.
“My name is Chloe,” I said. “And I can transform into a cat. A
black cat.”
“You’re Ama,” Aristide said. “That’s what Noctus meant, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” I said.
Ker narrowed her eyes, and I could feel her warm and bubbly
personality instantly cool. “Explain.”
“I moved to Magiford because I want to get a job at the Curia
Cloisters. The Cloisters have never been able to successfully sort out
what I am, which means I haven’t ever been allowed to join a House
or a Court. Working at the Cloisters was my safest option,” I said.
“What does that have to do with pretending to be Ama?” Aristide
asked. His voice wasn’t hard, but I felt it like a blade at my throat.
“I don’t have anyone,” I said. “So the Unseelie and Seelie Courts
like to pick on me since I can’t fight back. I was getting chased the
night I came here, and the Seelie fae took me. They planned to
rough me up, but their king had ordered them to speak to Noctus,
so they brought me with.”
Ker had opted to stand, and she paced back and forth like a
prowling wolf. “And you tricked Noctus into taking you in.”
“No—no, no.” I wildly shook my head. “I don’t have any powers
like that!”
“Then what magic do you have?” Aristide pressed.
“Very little that I can actively use. My blood tests say I’m human,
but I can change into a cat like a shifter, except I don’t have a shift
time, it’s instant. I’m also immune to most types of magic, and I can
go unnoticed. My senses are a little better, particularly my night
vision, but that’s about it.”
“We know what you are,” Aristide said. “Isn’t that right, Charon?”
I twisted in my chair, peering at Charon as he slipped through the
library door. He approached us, bowing briefly to Noctus. “The trash
has been relocated, Your Majesty.”
Noctus nodded, but he didn’t take his eyes off me. “You heard,
Charon?”
Charon glanced at me. “Yes.”
“Then you agree?” Aristide asked.
“That she’s a shadow? Certainly.”
Aristide smiled, showing his pronounced fang teeth. “That’s what
I thought. It’s the only explanation—you’re a poster child for them,
Chloe. I’d say we should have thought of it sooner, except I thought
all the shadows were slain.”
“It seems not,” Ker said, her voice still cold.
“Given that elves exist in secret, I don’t think it’s all that
farfetched that some shadows escaped the hunt,” Noctus said. When
he looked at me, the spiral in his eyes swirled. Even with the
shackles on his wrists containing his magic, I could still feel it waft
off him in his anger.
When I hugged him to snap him out of his magical fit, he didn’t
seem to mind. He was gentle. But…I guess that was before he
realized the full extent of what it all meant.
His reaction wasn’t the only one that worried me. Ker’s cold eyes
were like a knife in the heart. I’d been certain she would be the first
to forgive me, but her frown was chilling.
“I didn’t mean any harm.” I could feel my heartbeat speeding up,
but I couldn’t keep calm with all of them looking at me like that—
well, everyone except for Aristide. He seemed remarkably relaxed as
he tucked his hands behind his head. “I had no idea about any of
you—I just wanted to escape and keep living my life.”
Noctus sat in his chair in a way that made me feel like I was
kneeling before him on a throne. “Ama did leave the first opportunity
she had.”
“Yes.” I scooted to the edge of my chair. “I thought that would be
the end of it. I had no idea you’d put a tracking spell on me.”
Wait, that makes it sound like I’m blaming him for the situation.
“I should have told you when I realized you were looking for me,”
I rushed to add. “But I was scared. I thought…” I trailed off.
There isn’t a nice way to say ‘I thought you’d kill me,’ is there?
“And now you know about Noctus, about the city, about
everything,” Ker said.
“Oh, I’m sure not everything,” I nervously laughed. “I tried not to
learn more, because I knew I could be a risk to you all. Just as I
wanted to leave and go back to living my life, I also wanted to make
sure no one was harmed because of me.” I paused, the words
tasting like sand.
I need to tell them, about the tracker.
I braced myself for even more anger. “Which is why I need to tell
you what made me look for you guys at Magiford Donuts. Someone
is trying to kill me. I don’t know why, or who—but he’s a
supernatural and he uses magic.”
Noctus steepled his fingers together, his eyes lowering to half-
mast as he watched me. The pressure that radiated from him went
up a notch, and I was finding it hard to breathe.
Was this really the guy who had crooned to me in Elvish? It
doesn’t matter. I need to warn him.
I took a shaky breath of air and made myself continue. “He came
here last night and tried to break through the protective barriers you
have on the Cape Cod house—to get to me.” I nervously rubbed my
hands together. “I thought the barrier would hold, but I didn’t want
to risk it. I was trying to figure out if I could alert someone to
contact you when I saw the lights come on in Shiloh’s house, so I
ran out to lure him away and came to you because he won’t bother
me if I’m with you.”
The muscles on Noctus’s face hardened. “Charon.”
“I’ll check, Your Majesty.” Charon bowed, then slipped out of the
library—most likely to check the barrier.
“Is that why whenever Noctus found you, you were forever
running around town?” Aristide asked.
“Yes,” I said. “I was running from him. He chased me into the
Seelie fae, who grabbed me in my cat form the night I, um, met you
all. I hadn’t tried to get away from them because I wasn’t sure if he
was still following me at the time.”
Ker folded her arms across her chest. “It seems…convenient, but
she’s not lying. Or if she is, she’s excellent at covering it up.”
“I doubt that,” Aristide dryly said. “I now understand why Ama
frequently sounded like her heart was going to explode.”
Ker shifted from foot to foot. “Should I check, Noctus? If this
supernatural was outside the house tonight, I’ll be able to smell
him.”
Noctus nodded.
“He was by the fence,” I said. “He put some things on the ground
—I didn’t see them when we got home—I mean, back—so he either
took them when he was chasing after me, or he came back for
them.” I nervously bit my lip. “If you go down a few blocks you’ll find
my backpack—I flung it onto someone’s yard while I was running.”
Ker nodded to me—not with anger, but with a stiffness I’d never
seen in her. She left, leaving me alone with the elf king and the
vampire.
 “Well. In the meantime, I might as well tell you why you have a
stalker.” Aristide clapped his hands twice. Out of everyone, his
conduct surprised me the most—I thought he’d be icy like the
others, but he seemed to still be his open self.
Is he acting this way to try to gain my confidence because he
thinks I’m somehow lying and he wants to trip me up?
“It’s probably because you’re a shadow,” Aristide blithely
continued.
“I don’t know what that is,” I said miserably.
Aristide rested his hands on the textured arms of his chair. “Your
family didn’t teach you?”
“I’m adopted,” I said. “When I turned into a kitten as a toddler,
my parents realized I was a supernatural. They got me tested, but
the Curia Cloisters were never able to accurately sort me.”
“Ah, yes. That would explain a number of things,” Aristide said.
“But then, you mean to say you know nothing of your heritage?”
I shook my head. “I know I’m a human, but that’s it.”
“I see.” Aristide drummed his fingers on his chair. “Then it seems
you are in for quite the education. Noctus, would you like to explain,
or shall I?”
Noctus stood up. “You can.”
“Goodie, I do love a good history lesson.” The vampire wriggled
in his chair, then pointed his head in my direction—though his gaze
went beyond me. “Simply put, shadows were a subset of wizards
that were so gifted by magic, there isn’t a supernatural that can
compare to them.”
I’d been somewhat distracted watching Noctus stride deeper into
the library, but Aristide’s declaration got my attention back. I stared
at the vampire for a heartbeat, trying to sense if he was being
serious. Come on, I was among the weakest of all supernaturals.
“What?”
“Immune to all negative types of magic, but still able to benefit
from things like healing magic and portals to the fae realm, shadows
were magically impossible to beat. If that wasn’t enough, the ability
to instantly swap from their human to cat body and back was a
magnificent boon in battle.”
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Loi Panya Lawa, 395.
Loi Poo-ay, 153.
Loi Pwe, 46.
Loi Saun-Ka-tee, 205.
Loi Soo Tayp mountain, 91
—ascent of, 120.
Loi Ta Khan Lai, 74.
Loi Tat Muang Ken, 368.
Loi Tong Wai, 46, 47.
Loi Too-ey, 329.
Loi Wung Ka Chow, 402.
Lolo and Kaun villages, 365.
Lotus, use of the, as a symbol, 51.
Lover’s lute, description of a, 386.
Luang Prabang, 21, 135, 321.

MacLeod’s, General, journey to China through Burmah, viii.

M‘Gilvary, Dr and Mrs, 94—the Doctor joins the exploring party, 123
—sermon to the people by, 333.
Madras boys good fighters, 7
—their honesty, 128.
Maing Loongyee, 16, 24, 27
—its watersupply, 31.
Manners, learning, 304.
Maps of the country, 332.
Market at Zimmé, 100
—great variety of wares at, ib.
Markets, need for new, 415.
Marriage customs, 174—curious, 366.
Martin, Rev. Mr, 94
—joins party, 313 et seq.
Mau Sau, a celebrated native hunter, 353.
Maulmain thoroughfare, 4.
Maung Doo, halt at, 127.
Maung Fang, leave for, 315.
Maung Haut, 61
—party leaves, 69.
Maung Hit, excursion to, 196.
Maung Kent, 328.
Maung Pan, state of, 156.
Meals, 84
—daily particulars of, 249.
Medicine and pills, theft of, 383.
Medicines, stock of, 6
—Siamese, 174, 273
—ingredients in a dose, 274.
Meh Ai, the river of shame, 346.
Meh Chan, 351.
Meh Chun valley, 76.
Meh Fang, 341
—camping at, 344
—river, 360
—valley of the, 75.
Meh Gat, 42.
Meh Hang, 329, 341.
Meh Hau Prat, stream, 44, 370.
Meh Haut river, 61.
Meh Hkort valley, 136.
Meh Hkuang, 392.
Meh Hkuang river, 88, 127, 288.
Meh How river, 284.
Meh Hto river, 48.
Meh Ing, 153.
Meh Ing river, 225, 247.
Meh Ka, 91.
Meh Ka Lah, 136.
Meh Ka Ni, 42.
Meh Ka Tone, 27.
Meh Kang, 74, 135.
Meh Kee-ow, 309.
Meh Khan, 87.
Meh Khoke plain, 165.
Meh Kok, 27, 135.
Meh Kong or Cambodia river, 21, 156, 224
—great eastern bend of the, 190.
Meh Kong valley, 23.
Meh Lah river, 255.
Meh Lai, 393.
Meh Lai river, 45.
Meh Laik river, 24, 44.
Meh Li, 75.
Meh Lim, 320.
Meh Low, 88
 —hot springs of, 311
—valley of the, 308.
Meh Lye, 44.
Meh Mau river, 256.
Meh Nam delta, population of the, 460.
Meh Nam river, navigation on the, 250, 441 et seq.
Meh Ngat, crossing the, 363
—defile of the, 368.
Meh Ngor river, 21, 24
—its width and depth, 26.
Meh Ngow, arrival of expedition at, 252
—description of the city of, 253.
Meh Nium river, 20, 21, 24, 31.
Meh Nium valley, 44.
Meh Pai, 353.
Meh Pa-pai, 60.
Meh Pau, a tributary of the Thoungyeen river, 17.
Meh Phit, 75.
Meh Pik, or the Pepper river, 147.
Meh Ping, 64, 127, 320, 330
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Meh Poi, 341.
Meh Sa river, 320.
Meh Sa Lin river, 31, 42.
Meh Soo-ay, a royal game-preserve, 147.
Meh Sow river, 287.
Meh Ta, valley of the, 88, 287.
Meh Ta Loke, 360.
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Meh Teng valley, 329.
Meh Teun, 393.
Meh Tha Wah, 18, 23.
Meh Too, 23.
Meh Trien, valley of the, 283.
Meh Tyen, 48.
Meh Wung, 141
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—crossing the, 283
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Meh Yee-ep, 393.
Meh Yom, 439.
Meh Yu-ek, 251.
Mehongson, 353.
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Mha Tha Ket, 48.
Meh Wung, 404.
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Mon race and language, the, xi.
Monasteries in Maing Loongyee, 31.
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Moné, the chief of, subject to Great Britain, 157.
Mong Hpai, 432.
Mong Nai, 432.
Monk spoilt by the ladies, 165.
Monks, evil practices of, 301.
Monopolies, effect of, 365.
Monosyllabic languages, 161.
Moonlight scene, a, 330.
Moung Loogalay, 326.
Mountain villages of the Khas, 21.
Moway, famous quarries of, 300.
Muang Fang, 337
—arrival at, 347
—description of, ib.
—population of, 349
—history of, 353
—cost of carriage to, ib.
—leave the city, 360.
Muang Hăng State, 335.
Muang Haut, 295, 392.
Muang Hpan, 223.
Muang Ken, 368.
Muang Ko, 437.
Muang La Maing, 120.
Muang Len, 426.
Muang Ngai burned, 335
—the city of, 338.
Muang Ngam, 350.
Muang Ngow city, 245.
Muang Nium principality, 30.
Muang Nyon, 350.
Muang Penyow, 229.
Muang Phan, 221.
Muang Sat, 350.
Muang Soon Dok, the town of the flower-garden, 120.
Mud, boiling, to make tea, 225.
Musical water-wheels, 89.
Myawadi, 419.

Naiads, offerings to the, 259.

Nam Proon, 432.
Needlework, fancy, 103.
Neis, Dr Paul, French navy, 135
—his survey for a railway route, 278.
New Htow, 394.
Nga-peur-dau village, 14.
Ngio (Burmese Shans) raids, 365.
Ngio, or Moné Shans, 158.
Ngu race, xi.
Nirvana, the state of, 337.
Nong Doo Sakan, 88.
Nong Hang, 225.
Nong Sang, 89.
Nong Vee-a plain, 342.
Offerings to the dead, 17, 147
—for the monks, 257
—to the spirits of the land or rivers, 259
—to the good influences, 373.
Ogres, Madras boys taken for, 167.
Oo-caw stream, 24.
Ootaradit, 441.
Organ or pipes, the Laos, 339.
Oxen used for drawing timber, 308.

Paddy-birds, flocks of, 209.

Pagoda, a fine, 91
—of the Emerald Rice-bowl, 121
—on Loi Tee, 288.
Pahpoon, 33.
Pah Took, 255.
Pa-kin-soo, 392.
Pak Bong, 88.
Pak Muang, 90.
Pak Nam Po, 441, 442.
Palace at Zimmé, 101.
Palace of the angels, description of the, 324.
Palmyra-trees, 401.
Pang Eemoon, swampy valley of, 60.
Pang Hpan, 43.
Pang Ngao, village of, 225.
Pang Pau, 341.
Pa Sang, 88.
Pass 6500 feet above the sea, 156
—a dangerous, 287
—a difficult, 342.
Passports supplied to the exploring party, 125.
Paths over the hills, nature of the, 36.
Patriarch, family, 129.
Pau-ku-lay Toung, 17.
Pau Pa Teun, 177.
Pedlars, Burmese, 253.
Penyow, 224
—expedition leaves, 246.
Peoples, Dr, 112 et seq.
Petchaburi, governor of, 407.
Petroleum at Kiang Dow and Muang Fang, 333.
Petticoats, purchasing, 392.
Phayre, Sir Arthur, on British interests in Siam, 421.
Phichai, 441.
Photographic apparatus spoiled, 20.
Phya Khrut or Garuda, the king of eagles, 234.
Pigs, wild, ravages of, 186.
Pillar-Rock, 401.
Ping Shans, 49.
Plain, a beautiful, 364.
Plants, dangerous, in the jungle, 361.
Play, a Shan, 338.
Poayhla, 430, 432.
Portuguese ousted from Burmah, vii.
Pottery, manufacture of, 233.
Prayers, chanting, 452.
Prices of various articles at Maulmain, Bangkok, and Zimmé, 296.
Primitive pagoda, a, 308.
Prince, an intelligent, on the best railway route, 143.
Princes in their best clothes, 154.
Princess trader, visit to a, 103
—her opinion on the proposed railway, ib.
—friend to the missionaries, 117.
Principality, ancient, of Hsen, 200.
Prisdang’s, Prince, letter, 114.
Prison of Bangkok, 451.
Prisoners in chains sawing timber, 102.
Procession of exploring party when entering Kiang Hai, 154.
Propitiation of spirits, 179.
Provisions, out of, 358.
Punishments in the Buddhist hells, 263.
Purchas’s visit to Zimmé, vii.

Quambee, 10.
Quanta, 3.
Quinine, value of, 363.

Races, separation of, in the cities, 352.

Rachel, a Shan, 228.
Raheng, 15
—the White Elephant route to, 278
—reach, 404
—leave, 435.
Railway communication, proposed branch line from Yembine to
Tehdau-Sakan, 1
—proposed route of railway from Maulmain, 48
—paths for a railway, 56, 75
—discussion with the King of Zimmé about the railway, 102
—suggested route, 143
—road for a line to China, 151
—Dr Cheek on the prospects of a Burmah-China railway, 170
—branch line to Muang Fang, 184
—benefits of opening up the country by, 196
—chief’s opinion regarding labour, &c., for constructing, 214
—loop-line to Zimmé, 215
—proposed route to Muang Phan, 222
—importance of Penyow in regard to, 232
—route along the valley of the Meh Wung, 251
—how to tap the trade of Muang Nan and Muang Peh, 252
—proposed line from Bangkok viâ Lakon, 255
—Dr Neis on the railway connection of Burmah and China, 278
—cheap labour for the railway, 281
—desire for the projected railway, 292
—a branch line from Lakon, 309
—line from Zimmé to Kiang Hsen, 361
—talk with Prince Bigit on the subject of railways, 381
—routes for the railway, 403
—importance of connecting India with China, 415
—the Indo-Burmese and Burmo-Chinese projects, 416 et seq.
—advantages of Maulmain as a terminus, 417
—the Siamese route to Raheng, 418
—Sir Charles Bernard and other authorities on the projected
routes, 419 et seq.
—character of the Bhamo route, 429
—the Maulmain or nothing, 433
—commercial importance of the proposed railway, 434
—resolutions of Chambers of Commerce on the Burmah-Siam-
China Railway, 464 et seq.
Rain-god Indra, descent of the, 260.
Rangoon and Mandalay railway, 14.
Rapids shooting, dangerous, 395 et seq.
Raspberries, wild, 46.
Rebellion of the Zimmé Shans against Burmah, 88.
Religious buildings erected by the Burmese, 124
—ruined, 355.
Rénan’s, Ernest, ‘New Studies of Religious History’ quoted, p. 57,
note.
Responsibility of villagers for loss and crime in their district, 139.
Rice-plain, a large, 179.
Rice-plain of Zimmé, 127
—export of, from Penyow to Lakon, 231.
Richardson, Dr, viii.
—his visit to Maing Loongyee in 1829, 30.
Ringworm, 192.
River, a filthy, 230.
Robbing an image, 198.
Romantic princess, a, 117.
Roses, wild, 247.
Routes from China, 213.
Rubies, searching for, 403.
Ruby-mines, 61, 266.
Ruins of temples, extensive, near Kiang Hsen, 193.
Russia and Siam, comparison between, 297.
Russian railway across Asia, projected, 420.

Sacred cave of Tum Tap Tow, 342.

Sacred hills, 182.
Sacrifices to evil spirits, 22
 —to ancestors and demons, 52.
Salt used as currency in the Zimmé market, 164.
Salween mountain, 329.
Salween river, 3, 10.
Sambhur deer, a, 403.
Samuel, Thomas, first English visitor to the Shan States, vii.
Sapphire-mines, 462.
Satow, Mr, British consul-general in Siam, 419.
Sawankalok, 439.
Scott, Mr (Shwé Yoe), on religious tortures, 380, 445.
Service, evening, in a temple, 316.
Settlements, formation of, 220
—method of forming new, 350.
Sgau Karens, 17.
Shadow spirit, the, 83.
Shan dynasties in Burmah, 82.
Shan ladies, visit to, 321.
Shan language and its dialects, 312.
Shan Queen in English dress, 119.
Shan race, xv.
Shan States or kingdoms, 32.
Shans bartering goods, 46.
Shaving the head and eyebrows, 304.
Shoaygoon, 1, 3.
‘Siam and Laos,’ by Dr Cheek, quoted, 170.
Siam, British stake in, 420.
Siam railways need high embankments, 411.
Siamese authorities, apathy of, 390.
Siamese Commissioner, visit the, 113.
Siamese, description and dress of, 113.
Siamese frontier post, 20.
Siamese history, early, xiii.
Siamese officials expect bribes, 19.
Silk-cotton trees, 71.
Silver coinage in use, 163.
Silver-mines, 75, 403.
Siva worship, 319.
Sketching the scenery of the country, 64.
Slave-bondage, 131.
Slavery, gambling a cause of, 238
—the law of Siam, regarding, ib.
—parents selling children into, 240.
Slavery in Bangkok, 452.
Slaves, price of, 31, 130
—purchased from Red Karens, 388.
Smallpox, outbreak of, 28
—outbreak of, in Penyow, 232
—callousness of natives as to, 233.
Smith-work of the Shans, 55.
Snake, sitting on a, 362.
Snake-worship, 318.
Soil and foliage, 146.
Song Kare, 91.
Song Kweh, 400.
Soom Cha, 402.
Spinning-wheels, emigrants carrying, 363.
Spirit-clans, formation of, 396.
Spirit-medium, a, 105.
Spirit-worship of Ping Shans, 373.
Spirit-worshippers, 15.
Spirits alluring travellers, 398.
Springs, hot, 340.
Ssumao, a Chinese frontier post, 151.
Stone images of Buddha, 233.
Stork, King, 448.
Story of a yak, 59.
Story of the peacock and crow, 63.
Straining water, 323.
Street, Colonel, 48.
Subterranean channels, 24.
Sugar-press, a simple, 74.
Suicide by no means unusual, 152.
Sukkhothai, 439.
Sunday service by Dr M‘Gilvary, 216.
Superstition, degrading influence of, 82.
Survey of passes between Siam and Burmah, 391.
Surveying, 9
—under difficulties, 139.
Surveys made for the King of Siam by English engineers for railways,
196.
Sworn brothers, 354.

Ta Kwai village, 90.

Ta Nong Hluang ferry, 71.
Ta Nong Pai, 91.
Ta Pa or “rock-ferry,” 73.
Ta Pwee ford, 402.
Ta Wang Pow, 89.
Tai Ngio people, 157.
Tali-foo, 427.
Tattooing, practice of, 138.
Taxation in Siam, vexatious, 447.
Taxation, light, 135
—burdensome, in Siam, 244
—light, in Shan States, 245.
Taxes in Kiang Hai, 163.
Tea-growing on the hills to the west of Meh Ping, 369.
Tea, wild, plant, 24, 320.
Teaching in a monastery, 304.
Teak-forests in the Thoungyeen valley, 21
—forests belong to chiefs, 135
—forests, 198.
Teak-trees, 10 et seq.
Tee-tee-ko, 16.
Teh-dan-Sakan, 12, 14, 16.
Temple, Shan description of a, 66.
Temple, Sir Richard, on the proposed railway to China, 424.
Tenasserim division of Burmah, 1.
Thatone, 4.
Thoungyeen river, 10–16, 20 et seq.—, 405.
Thoungyeen valley, 21.
Thunderstorm, tremendous, 281.
Tigers, scaring, 137
—prowling of, 179.
Timber king, a, and the money-lenders, 28.
Tobacco, cutting, 57
—caravan laden with, 346.
Tobacco-gardens, 70.
Toon Chang, 460.
Torture at the police courts, 450.
Tower muskets in use, 311.
Trade and traffic of Zimmé, 104.
Trade between British Burmah and Siam, and its Shan states, 117.
Trade-routes, intersection of, at Kiang Hsen, 195
—to Penyow, 232.
Trading caravan, a, 11.
Transmigration of the soul, belief in the, 112.
Travellers delayed, 296.
Tree-ferns, 44.
Trees inhabited by spirits, 110.
Trial by water, 260.
Trichinosis, 346.
Tricks with the currency, 164, 165.
Tsin-sway, or Elephant-tusk stream, 23.
Tum Kwan, ceremony of, 373.
Tutelary gods, belief in, 231.

Underground rivers, 395.

Venison for dinner, 15.
Viang Chai, 336.
Viang Chaum Taung, 227.
Viang Ma-nee-ka, 345.
Viang Moo Bom, city of, 228.
Viang Pa Pow, 142, 307.
Viang Pow, 353
—surrounded by a palisade, 364
—population of, 365
—cost of carriage to, 366
—trade-routes from, ib.
Villages swept away by floods, 412
—a line of, 444.

Wages of boatmen, 66.

Wang Hluang Pow, 87.
War-paths leading from Burmah to Zimmé and Siam, 30.
Warming of Buddh, the, 265.
Waterfalls, high, 42, 397.
Water festival at the New Year, 265.
Water-parting between the Meh Ping and Meh Kong, 360.
Water-wheels, 75.
Wat Phra Chow Toon Hluang, 227.
Webster, Rev. David, American Baptist Mission, 19 et seq.—390.
Whistling rockets, 219.
White Elephant, temple of the, 315.
Wilson, Rev. Jonathan, 96.
Witch villages, 143.
Witchcraft, spirit of, 106
—false charges of, 109
—action of missionaries with respect to, 110.
Witches considered free agents, 108.
Woman put in chains, 218.
Women, shameless, 393.
Wood-oil, collection and uses of, 249.
Wood with a horrible odour, 180.
Wung Hoo-a-Kwai, 74.
Wung Muang, 321.
Wung Pan, 74.

Yain Sa Lin, 35, 42.

Yaks of Indo-China, 58.
Yambine river, 11.
Yare-they-mare hill, 11.
Yembine valley, excursion in the, 13.
Yembine village, 14.
Yingan river, 12.
Yule, Sir Henry, on the Burmah-Siam-China Railway, 423.
Yunnanese traders to Maulmain, 210.
Yunnan-foo, 427.

Zimmé, arrival at, 93

—our reception, 94
—account, 95 et seq.
—population, 98
—visit the king, 101
—discussion on the proposed railway, 102
 —departure from, 127.
Zimmé chain of hills, 56.
Zimmé, leave, without interpreters, 306.
Zimmé plain, villages in the, 288.
Zimmé, Shan state of, and its former extent, 32.
Zylophone, a native, 322.
 1. In his ‘New Studies of Religious History,’ Ernest Renan points out that the
ruins of Ancor, in Southern Indo-China, “are now ascribed with certainty to the
ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries of our era. In them Sivaism and Buddhism are
blended; and Sivaism appears here before Buddhism.” There can be no doubt that
Sivaism, or the worship of the hero-gods of the hills, in China and Indo-China, is
connected with the ancient religion of the non-Aryan Himalayan hill tribes. Siva
was not incorporated by the Brahmans into their pantheon until about the
commencement of our era.

2. Milton, “Comus,” act i.

3. Peh Muang merely means the division or boundary of the States, and is
applied to all ranges that form boundaries.

4. Siam and Laos, p. 544.

5. During the present lawka, or existence of the world, four Buddhas are said
to have appeared. The dispensation of each lasts 5000 years. Gaudama Buddha
was the last of the four, and his death, according to the Ceylon histories, occurred
B.C. 543, but according to Professor Muller, B.C. 477, or a year after that of
Confucius. A lawka is a whole revolution of nature. The world, according to
Buddhists, is continuously destroyed and reproduced, but each lawka lasts an
incalculable length of years.

6. A Dewah, or inhabitant of Indra’s heaven.

7. Mr Archer gives the Siamese pronunciation of the names; I give that of my

Burmese Shan interpreters.

8. Most Chinese and Indo-Chinese cities are under tutelary deities, as the
cities in Egypt and Babylonia were in ancient times. The same custom prevails in
India, where many cities are presided over by incarnations of one or other of the
gods.

9. The great masses of the common people are marked and designated as Prai-
luang. These are scattered all over the country. The provincial or the city
authorities can demand of those thus marked three months’ personal services each
year, and there may be extra demands if there is a seeming need. The usual mode
is to require service one month, and then allow them three months to carry on
their own pursuits. The only derangement to this plan is the extra service. No pay
is allowed for this service. For failure to perform the service he must pay $3.60
each month.—Extract from ‘The Siam Repository.’

10. Committed by themselves or by their relations. The law frequently

adjudges, besides punishment to the man, that his family and descendants shall for
the future be slaves of the Government. The descendants of captives in war are
classed and treated as Government slaves.

11. “The abolition of the system of corvée, which weighs very heavily on the
people, would be a boon of infinite benefit to the country. It is not only that the
service lawfully due is heavy, but the opportunity for imposing vexatious and
severe labour, with a view to receiving a bribe for dispensing with it, is eagerly
taken advantage of by unscrupulous officials. A poll-tax of reasonable amount
would probably bring in a greater sum to the Royal revenues, and would bear but
lightly on the people.”—Consular Report, Siam, No. 1, (1886).

12. Up to August 1885, when George Washington, the second King of Siam,
died, a duplicate king reigned in Siam in conjunction with the supreme monarch,
and had much the same power as a Chow Hona has in the Shan States.

13. During my various journeys I passed through or near 222 villages in the
portion of the Zimmé plain lying between the entrance of the Meh Teng, into the
Meh Ping on the north and the junction of the Meh Hkuang with the Meh Ping on
the south—including those on the various branches of the river.

14. The prince at the head of the Gem City.

15. Page 219.

16. Butea frondosa.

17. The province of Kiang Hsen, not the city; the latter was only reoccupied in
1881.

18. The kwun among the Shans has a resemblance to the ka-la or guardian
angel believed in by the Karens. The Karens believe that everything living,
vegetable or animal, possesses a ka-la, which still remains with the soul of the
plant or animal after its body is destroyed, and accompanies a man to his future
abode of bliss or punishment. Its place is on the head or neck of every human
being. As long as it remains seated in its place the Karen is safe from all attacks of
evil spirits; but if it is enticed away by others, or jumps down and wanders away
during the body’s sleep, then follow sickness and death. If a man is sick or pining
away, his spirit is supposed to be wandering, and has to be enticed back with an
offering of good.

19. Siam Repository, 1869.

20. The Karens sometimes bury an infant alive with its mother; and amongst
the Kakhyens, a wild tribe in the north of Burmah, if a woman dies within seven
days of childbirth, the corpse, living child, house, and every article in the house, are
burnt. The child may be adopted by a stranger, but it must not remain in the
village, and no Kakhyen will have anything to do with it.

21. It is strange to find a custom in vogue many centuries ago in Egypt still
practised amongst the Shans in Indo-China. In Egypt frequently the whole skin of
the embalmed body was covered with gold-leaf; in other cases the face, the eyelids,
and sometimes only the nails.

22. Spirit-worship.

23. The Pee Song Nang, if belonging to the primitive Turanian spirits, so
generally believed in by the Shans, are neither male nor female spirits. All such
spirits, unlike the ancient Chaldean deities, have neither husbands, wives, nor
children, and are utterly devoid of any of the good points appertaining to human
beings. They know neither law nor kindness, do not listen to prayer and
supplication, and are merely objects of dread to the people. They are sacrificed to
only to keep them in a good humour, and to prevent them wreaking their
vengeance and spite upon the people.

24. The length of the branch line is estimated at 160 miles, the cost at one and
a half million sterling, which is equivalent to Rs. 136,363 a mile, taking exchange at
1s. 4¼d. The 108 miles opened in Upper Burmah up to December 31, 1888, cost,
according to the last “Administration Report on the Railways in India,” only Rs.
50,349 per mile.

25. Two hundred and seventy-five British steamers and 16 British sailing-
vessels visited Bangkok in 1888, and only 17 French steamers and no French
sailing-vessels. The gross sea-borne trade of Bangkok in the same year was valued
at over four millions sterling, the imports at £1,657,708, and the exports at
£2,598,901. The import of cotton manufactures was valued at £302,746, and
cotton yarns at £40,936.

26. In 1888, 27,118 bullocks were exported from Bangkok, and according to
the last Consular Report, “the export of cattle overland to Burmah is said to be
about double that from Bangkok.” One hundred thousand head of cattle—buffaloes
and bullocks—have died in a single year of cattle-disease in Burmah, and a large
portion of the area of our province would have been thrown out of cultivation if it
had not been for the supplies we were able to draw from Siam.

27. A superstitious belief that the ancient trade-routes must necessarily be the
best has always influenced Indian officialism. It overlooks the important fact that
routes which were well adapted for caravan traffic may be quite unsuitable for
railway communication; and also that the character and localities of commerce
have changed since the ancient routes were opened up.
 28. The son of the late regent was then Kalahom, or Prime Minister of Siam,
and the Kalahom’s daughter is the king’s first wedded wife, but without the rank of
queen. The present queens, right and left, are half-sisters of the king, and full
sisters of Prince Devawongse. The Kalahom, the Kromatah or Foreign Minister—
who was a half-brother of the ex-regent—and the uncle of the king, who were the
heads of the nobles that opposed progress, have been removed by death or
resigned since my visit, and the king has no longer a pretence for delaying to
propagate measures for the improvement of his administration and the welfare of
his people.

29. These railways, with the exception of the branch from Maulmain, are now
being surveyed by English engineers, under Sir Andrew Clarke’s syndicate, for the
King of Siam.

30. China has since been able to borrow at five per cent.
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