. Ibis . luimoinstead To those interested in the geography of China, it maybe worth noting that, while the distance between Hankauand Bhamo along the route followed by me is, according tothe best maps of China, roughly 1503 miles, the actualdistance traversed, according to my sketch, is some 2360miles. Again, the distance from I-men to Chiug-tung is shownon the maps as about 75 miles; I found we had to Avalknearer 200 miles, which oecupied us nine hours a day for tendays, excluding halts The follo\Ting may prove of interest. During the journeyfrom Hankau to Bharao, between November 8, 1898, an
. Ibis . luimoinstead To those interested in the geography of China, it maybe worth noting that, while the distance between Hankauand Bhamo along the route followed by me is, according tothe best maps of China, roughly 1503 miles, the actualdistance traversed, according to my sketch, is some 2360miles. Again, the distance from I-men to Chiug-tung is shownon the maps as about 75 miles; I found we had to Avalknearer 200 miles, which oecupied us nine hours a day for tendays, excluding halts The follo\Ting may prove of interest. During the journeyfrom Hankau to Bharao, between November 8, 1898, andApril 20, 1899, the thermometer ranged from 30° to 92° the shade. We experienced every kind of weather frombright clear sunshine and cloudless skies to dull dark days,accompanied by fogs, mist, rain, snow, sleet, hail, frost, coldbleak winds, or hot fiery blasts. On the whole, exceptManchuria, and perhaps Kashmir, I know no part of Asiaso suited to tlie people of Western nations for prolonged o. CO PH< a w < w \ ^ collected in South China. o77 residence as the hills ia the west of Hunan and the plateauof Kwei-chu and Yunnan. We had travelled from Hankau to Bhamo^ about 2360miles, of which about 880 were by water, and the rest,1480, by land. Excluding halts, we managed 13^ miles aday by boat against the current and with numberless rapids,over each of which it required from fifteen to twenty trackersto haul the boat; and by road we averaged 18^ miles a day,including halts. We were 130 days actually on the marchby river and road. During that portion of the journeybetween Kwei-yang and Bhamo, we went up and down over2000 feet more than twenty times ; while on eight occasionswe went down 3000 feet and up again a similar height in adistance of only 10 miles. These figures speak for them-selves, and give some idea of the very mountainous cliaracterof the Kweichu and Yunnan provinces. There is a fine field for the scientific explorer and fur theartist and sportsman in
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