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233, 234

Mencius, cited, 198

Methodist Episcopalian Mission, 40, 54

Michie, A., cited, 124

Missionaries, success in China, 5;
numbers in Hankow, 6

Missions Étrangères de Paris, 6, 64, 65, 105, 122, 146, 171

Mi Tsang Gorge, 17

Mohammedans, and opium, 112;
in Chaotong, 113, 114;
near Tongchuan, 128;
in Tali, 216;
insurrection, 145, 185, 187, 203;
superiority, 216;
the milkman, 217

Momien (Tengyueh), the city of, 243-249

Money, changing, 95;
remittance of, 95

Morgan, C. L., cited, 66, 70

Morphia, imported, 48, 49

Moule, Bishop, cited, 130

Moutot, Père, Provicaire in Suifu, 63, 65

Muirhead, Rev. W., cited, 123

Mungtze, 148-150, 159

Myothit (Santien), 278, 279


Nampoung, encampment, 270, 275-278

Nantien, fort of, 250, 251


Opium, imports and exports of, 46-48;
in Hankow, 3;
in Chungking, 45;
in Suifu, 72, 73;
demoralising influence of, 41;
—— refuge, Chungking, 41;
—— ports, 33;
poisoning by, 111, 112, 212;
my chairbearers and, 94;
my coolie and, 219;
appeal for suppression, 190, 191

d'Orleans, Prince Henri, cited, 148;
in Yunnan, 149


Parricide in China, 69

Pearson, Prof. C. H., cited, 186, 224

Peking Gazette, cited, 53, 169, 231

Pen, telegraph manager, Tengyueh, 244

Pêng Yü-lin, high commissioner, cited, 192

Pidgin-English, 3, 9, 18

Piercy, Rev. G., cited, 191

Ping-shan-pa, 13

Pits for the dead, 133

Plague, bubonic, in Yunnan, 213

Pollard, Rev. S., missionary, Tongchuan, 121

Poppy, 37, 57, 78, 84, 118, 142;
surreptitiously grown, 46

Post-offices, 95, 96

Prisons in China, 209-211

Punishments in China, 103, 104, 136, 239

Pupêng, 193

Pupiao, 236;
my men die at, 281


Reade, Charles, cited, 209

Reed, Miss M., cited, 191

Reid, Rev. G., cited, 41, 192

"Rice Christians," 6

Roberts, Rev. Mr., missionary, Bhamo, 286

Rockhill, W. W., cited, 280, 281


St. Thomas, visit to Suifu, 65

Salween river, 237-240

Santa, Shan town, 259-263

Schehleh, 272, 277

Scott, J. G., cited, 287, 289

Sengki-ping, 84

Settee, fort of, 274, 275

Shachiaokai, 192

Shang-kwan, 204

Shans, 240, 252, 254, 256-269

Shih-pao-chai, 32

Shuichai, 234

Shweli river, 242

Silver in Yunnan, 161, 163;
in Tengyueh, 249

Singai (Bhamo), 218

Sladen, Major, 267

Small feet, 14, 101, 153

Small-pox, 212, 213

Smith, Rev. A. H., cited, 41, 269

Smith, Rev. John, missionary, Talifu, 202, 209, 214, 219

Smith, Mr. Stanley P., his rapid conversion of a Chinaman, 279

Soldiers, their weapons, 234, 241, 249;
fierceness of aspect, 263;
courage, 271

"Squeezing" in China, 151, 152

Stead, W. T., cited, 152

Suicide by opium, 111;
land of, 111, 112

Suifu, the city of, 62-75

Sutherland, Rev. Dr. A., cited, 123, 173

Swinburne, A. C., cited, 14

Szechuen, "country of the clouds," 82;
population, 186;
contrasted with Yunnan, 85-88;
Catholic stronghold, 64


Taipingkai, Shan town, 263

Taiping-pu, 226

Taiping river, 246, 250, 252, 258, 278, 279

Tak-wan-hsien, 92, 94, 96

Tak-wan-leo, 92

Talichao, 234

Talifu, the city of, 202-219;
its converts, 178

Tanto, 82

Taoshakwan, 86

Taoūen, 116

Tawantzu, 92

Taylor, Rev. Dr. J. Hudson, cited, 46, 67, 68, 70, 179;
on opium, 46;
on ancestral worship, 67;
Chinese in lake of fire, 67, 68

Tchih-li-pu, 86

Telegraph, in Yunnan, 147;
in Tali, 208;
in Yungchang, 234;
in Tengyueh, 243-248;
system of telegraphing Chinese characters, 166-168;
telegraphic transfers, 95, 159

Tengyueh (Momien), the city of, 243-249

"Term question," 122, 123

Theatre in Tengyueh, 246, 247

Tommé, M., in Yunnan, 150

Tongchuan, the city of, 120-134;
its converts, 178

Tonquin, 148, 149

Tragedy of the Tali valley, 220, 221

Tremberth, Rev. Mr., missionary, Chaotong, 101

Tsen Yü-ying, the cruel Viceroy, 267

Tung-lo-hsia, 35

Turner, Rev. F. Storrs, cited, 46

Tu Wen Hsiu, the Mohammedan Sultan, 203


Ullathorne, Bishop, cited, 210


Vial, Père, of Yunnan, 150

Voltaire, cited, 173

Von Richthofen, cited, 90


Wanhsien, the city of, 24-31

Warren, Consul Pelham, of Hankow, 8

Warry, Mr., Chinese adviser to the Burmese Government, 229, 261, 285

Wherry, Rev. J., cited, 123

Widows, virtuous, 52, 53, 78

Williams, Rev. Dr. S. Wells, cited, 47, 110, 126, 197, 267

Williamson, Rev. Dr. A. W., cited, 70, 223

Wong, banker in Yunnan, 163-166

Wong-wen-shao, the Viceroy, 180, 181

Woodin, Rev. S. F., cited, 66, 179

Woolston, Miss S. H., cited, 14

Wuchang, 3

Wuntho Sawbwa, 245, 253, 254

Wushan Gorge, 20

Wushan-hsien, 20


Yangki river, 221

"Yang kweitze", 18, 25, 228, 229

Yanglin, 145

Yangpi, 224

Yang Yu-ko, Imperialist general, 203, 204

Yeh, of the Chinese Boundary Commission, 224

Yehtan rapid, 19

Yenwanshan, 193

Ying-wu-kwan, 193

Yuenchuan, 60

Yungchang, the city of, 234, 235

Yunnan, the city of, 147-183;
its converts, 177;
the province of, 85-88;
its converts, 178

Yunnanhsien, 196

Yunnan Yeh, 193

Rough Sketch-Map of China and Burma showing Author's Route from Shanghai to Rangoon. Rough Sketch-Map of China and Burma showing Author's Route from Shanghai to Rangoon.
Typographical errors corrected in text


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