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Political, moral, social and spiritual contrast of Yün-nan with other parts of the Empire. Inconsistencies of celestial life. Author's start for Burma. The caravan. To Che-chi. Dogs fighting over human bones. Lai-t'eo-p'o: highest point traversed on overland journey. Snow and hail storms at ten thousand feet. Desolation and poverty. Brutal husband. Horse saves author from destruction.
None of them, of course, could speak a word of English. The ninety li to Che-chi was mostly along narrow paths by the sides of river-beds, the intermediate plains having upturned acres waiting for the spring. This I knew to be a barefaced lie.
Length of Height stage above sea 1st day Che-chi 90 li. 7,800 ft. 2nd day Lai-t'eo-p'o 90 li. 8,500 ft. 3rd day Kongshan 100 li. 6,700 ft. 4th day Yang-kai 85 li. 7,200 ft. 5th day Ch'anff-o'o 95 li 6,000 ft. 6th day The Capital 70 li 6,400 ft.
Dogs the universal scavengers of the awakening interior, to which merest allusion is barred by one's Western sense of decency just outside Che-chi, where I stayed the night, had recently devoured the corpse of a little child. Its clothing was strewn in my path, together with the piece of fibre matting in which it had been wrapped, and the dogs were then fighting over the bones.
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