Tue momorinl of the Viceroy of Yi nan on the conquest of Burma merely spanks of Blame as a place where the friends who would help lust yenr hind such aid been needed, He snys nothing of ils value ug a commercial contre, but wueli of the nes ty of China getting control of the savages who prey on the -}oountry near it; and if China can bring them under her rale English people will have no cause of regret, and Blniuo by the joint efforts of English and Chinese, will recover her position. The town was for centuries the chief pluck on the great trade road through these conn. tries, but misrule and constant exact Lave reduce as only two or three thousand it neighbours plan father preferred that Bhamo should remain in ite fallen state. He turned a dent ear to all Colonel Sladen's glowing pictures of the wealth which revived commerce at Blame would pour into his treasury. foreigners, as Thibet other nations in the E:
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