| caption: |
terms of peace; insistence on return of captured slaves |
| text: |
Mills says that his wish was the same but Pangsha will have to agree not to take revenge of any of the villages which have helped an befriended us. Also they should in future leave small villages alone. Furthermore he demanded the release of the remaining slave girl. She has already been sold to Burma through the mediation of Tsawlaw but it is known in which village she is. Although Pangsha insists that this girl has been sold a long time ago and that they had tried their best to get her back, the case really seems to be that the owner of the slave, (6) may be against the wish of the village, refused to release her without ransom and had sent her on to Burma shortly before our arrival. This is supported by the fact that the sale price has not been paid yet and the one slave girl in Chingmei insists that the girl had been still in Pangsha when she was brought to Chingmei. |
