PALONG. The Pa-long, Po-loa, *Pa-on, or Za-baing tribe are partially subject to, and located to the east of, the Mo-Meit (hung Myit, Moung m-ri) beyond the Ka-ren-ni, and along the Chinese frontier, as far as the latitude of Bamo (Mang mo). They are civilised and remarkably in dustrious, being good carpenters, dyers, and blacksmiths. Their dha or swords are exclusively used in and around Baum. Between Yunnan and Burma, by Bamo, the route passes across a range of hills inhabited by Ka-khyeng and Palong, and then enters a Shan country, the Ko-pyi-doung of the Burmans. The Palong inhabit the valley south - east of Bamo, beyond the first mountain range. They approximate to the Shan, of whom they are probably an offshoot ; they wear the same dress, and are Buddhist, but they have affinities with the Ka-khyeng. They seem to resemble the Annamese in some respects. A race of the same name (Panong), but to which the Siamese apply the generic name of Ka or Kha, inhabit the mountains of Laos, bordering on Kambojia. They
are a coarse and debased variety of the Annam and the Kambojian type. The Palong tribe have Shan and Ka-khyeng on the north, with Burmans on the south, between lat. 97° and 98° N., and in long. 23-1° N. The Palong tribe are kindred to the Shan, and inhabit the hills east and north-east of the ruby mines, on the border of Burma and China. They are short' athletic men, with fair skins ; many of them have large grey eyes, and all have a small flat nose, much distended towards the nostrils. They wear a dark jacket and short breeches in the Shan style.—Yule, p. 169.
PALOO, Mimusops hexandra, Roxb., has a hard, fine, close-grained, heavy Ceylon wood ; heart-wood deep red-brown ; recent layers reddish - yellow ; its compact, even structure, admirably adapt it for turning wood.—Exh. 185].