The 'White-Bones,' An Inferior Class, But
Still Lolo By Birth, Are, So Far As I Could Understand, The Vassals And
Retainers Of The Patricians - The People, In Fact.
A third class consists
of Wa-tzu, or slaves, who are all captive Chinese.
It does not appear
whether the servile class is sub-divided, but, at any rate, the slaves
born in Lolodom are treated with more consideration than those who have
been captured in slave-hunts." (Baber, Travels, 67.)
According to the French missionary, Paul Vial (Les Lolos, Shang-hai,
1898) the Lolos say that they come from the country situated between Tibet
and Burma. The proper manner to address a Lolo in Chinese is
Lao-pen-kia. The book of Father Vial contains a very valuable chapter on
the writing of the Lolos. Mr. F.S.A. Bourne writes (Report, China, No.
I. 1888, p. 88): - "The old Chinese name for this race was 'Ts'uan Man' -
'Ts'uan barbarians,' a name taken from one of their chiefs. The Yun-nan
Topography says: - 'The name of "Ts'uan Man" is a very ancient one, and
originally the tribes of Ts'uan were very numerous. There was that called
"Lu-lu Man," for instance, now improperly called "Lo-Lo."' These people
call themselves 'Nersu,' and the vocabularies show that they stretch in
scattered communities as far as Ssu-mao and along the whole southern border
of Yun-nan. It appears from the Topography that they are found also on
the Burmese border."
The Moso call themselves Nashi and are called Djiung by the
Tibetans; their ancient capital is Li-kiang fu which was taken by their
chief Meng-ts'u under the Sung Dynasty; the Mongols made of their country
the kingdom of Chaghan-djang.
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