Yubnan is one of the largest provinces of China, but also one of the mest remote, Tengyueh, the capital of Western Yunnan, is easiest reach—ed by way of Burma. Of course, tone could go via Tali Fu, but is a bit of a climb, "Tengyueh is only four hundred feet lower than Tall, but the valleys of the Salween, Mekong and other rivers intervene, and someone has calculated that 10 walk from one to the other you go up twenty-six thousands feet and down twenty-five thousand! "So most people prefer to travel from Bhamo on the Burmese border whence Tengyueh is about a hundred and thirty miles, The city of Tengyueh occupies a corner of an extensive plain. Round shout rise quiet, beautiful mountains most wonderfully green. These uplands are bare and rounded, and some of them attain a height of nine thousand feet, though the Irrawaddy Salween "divide" which can be seen distantly is thirteen thousand. The plain itself is five thousand four hundred, "so that the climate of Tengyueh is ideal, never hot, and never very cold, and the average rainfall is 65 inches. The day time temperature during November when T'was there fell 10 54 degrees.
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