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(26) they have been shown in the migration map as an off-shoot of the Burmese stem, though, by virtue of their Chin and Kachin ancestry, they have been dealt with here among the other Western Tibeto-Burmans. The Kadus have been most recently studied by Mr. Clayton, Settlement Officer of Katha (vide bibliographical note, post page 67). Except for a few in the Upper Chindwin District there are practically no Kadus outside Katha. In 1901 the total of persons who returned themselves as Kadus was between 34,000 and 35,000.

It is possible that the Kadus may be racially allied to the Tamans in the north of the Upper Chindwin District who live where the Shan, Chin and Kachin areas meet in the neighbourhood of the 25th parallel of latitude and speak a language (vide vocabulary prepared by Mr. Grant Brown in September-October 1908) which appears to be connected with Kachin and Naga but, like Kadu, contains an element of Shan and Chin. Even if they are not related to the Kadus, however, the Tamans have been produced by much the same amalgamation as the latter. There are said to be Tamans outside the Upper Chindwin District, but of the 829 persons who returned themselves as Tamans at the 1901 Census, all but fifty-five were enumerated in the Upper Chindwin. There is only one pure Taman village (Tamanthi in the Homalin Township), but there are said to be Tamans in most of the villages in the extreme north of the district. An account of the Tamans' stories of people who could turn themselves into tigers and of nats who afflicted those who stole the property of Tamans, etc., was written by Mr. Grant Brown, Deputy Commissioner of the Upper Chindwin District, in 1908. In the migration map the Tamans have