appeared to be of supreme unimportance, but I must now modify that statement, as I find that it affords a much easier route than would otherwise have to be followed for bringing into Bhamo the grain of Namkham, which is situated in a prosperous valley where excellent cultivation is carried on. If the routes that cross the triangle could'not be utilised it would be necessary to go much further south over very difficult ground, and the cost of transport would thus be very materially enhanced. By the new, Convention, it will be remembered, China retains the shadow of its title to the "triangle" while the substance goes to England by a perpetual lease, with a rent to be fixed hereafter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.