  | 1– | The legend is copied almost word for word from a most interesting work which Iprocured from Calcutta, “The Karen Apostle, or Memoir of Ko Thah Byu,” by the Rev.Francis Mason, D.D., missionary to the Karens. Iam indebted to this work for the information contained in this story regarding a very remarkable race, as well as regarding the singular man who is the subject of the memoir. | | 2– | It is a remarkable fact that when the English, many years after the date of my story, took possession of Upper Burmah, they trusted Karens with weapons, and found them do good work as gallant police in bringing that troublesome district into order. | | 3– | Ko Thah Byu’s account of himself is strictly authentic. | | 4– | If unprecedented then, not a solitary instance now, as Constance Kent voluntarily confessed herself guilty of murder, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the present reign. | | 5– | It would be deemed very improper for a woman to say “my husband.” | | 6– | Held, Ithink, in 1888, but it may have been in the previous year. |
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