Hainan's population is an interesting conglomeration of peoples. We seem to have @ show-room in which are samples of all sorts of Chinese from the mainland. There are first the aborigines called Lois, who are thought to be of the Tai race of the Laos and of Indo-China. Their numerous tribes have never submitted to Chinese rule; they wore their long hai tied up in a knot on the forehead when queues were compulsory, and they have not
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