The Irrawaddy-Salween divide was really one of the most arresting things we saw during the whole of this memorable tour." It seemed somehow to have lept towards us, fand there were now no intervening, ranges between us and it, These mountains rose ike a pink and grey wall right eross our world. Real mountains they were, too, without break or gap, and soaring in a succession of rocky peaks to well over 12,000 feet.
T have heard, and read, and even written, of this divide, which further north is the frontier between Burma and China, Here, it has ceased to be so, but it is an uncomwomising ridge which can only be "rossed at a few points. In fact there are probably not more than 20,000 true Chinese to the west of it in these parts, and the population of Tengyueh itself is only about nine or ten thousand. Another (Continued on page 514.)
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