On entering Yunnan the people seemed tobe a mixture of Chinese and Tibetan called by the Chinese Moso, but who in religion and customs are Tibetan. The name of the district is Jong. From thence he went to the district of Yunglin, a plain fall of scattered villages, with the usual monastery where the "King" lives, who, however, is not a lama. Que day and a half from this place the left bank of the 'YANGTZE or ce ce call it Gaji—is reached and followed in a westerly direction for six miles, when the Shuji, a tributary of the larger river, is crossed. The crossing is effected by means of a small raft made of inflated sheep-skins and a frail bamboo platform placed across them for the passenger and goods to teston, A man with an inflated skin attached to his stomach paddies himself across with the raft, guiding it to its destination on the farther side, The road then ascends to the CHUNGTIEN PLAIN, which is high and cold. By the way a valley is passed famous for coal, iron, and gold. Nomad Tibetans occupy the plain in summer, but make for less exposed quarters in the winter. Here there is a lamasery endowed by the Chinese Government, A peas feature is the number of people with red hair—so common as not to excite remark except on the part of a traveller who has grown accustomed to the black hair and skins of the people hitherto met.
BACK TO CHINA PROPER, From Chungtien Mr. Amendsen went to Weihsi, a Chinese prefectural city lying in a narrow glen on the road south of Atentze and not much known to Westerners, There are some five thousand Chinese of a most friendly alepcaition living here, besides many Lisoo and Tibetans, From Weibsi the traveller passed southward vid Lichiang to Talifu. The Lichiang people are aggressively anti-foreign, the exact antipodes in this respect to the people The Burma-Yunnan railway survey party had recently been through this
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and, of course, had stirred up much From Tali back to Tachienlu Mr. Amendsen followed the road up the Anning river past Ningyuanfu, skirting the Lolo country to the Tung river, thence by Tzetati to Mosimien and so on to his home in Ta-chien lu,
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