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Updated: May 25, 2025
Usually when the magistrate sips his tea it is a sign that the interview is ended. When leaving, the mandarin follows his visitor to the doorway of the outer court, while the latter continually bows and protests asking him not to come so far. Ta-li Fu and Hsia-kuan are important fur markets and we spent some time investigating the shops.
As the last stage was only six hours we spent half the morning in taking moving pictures of the caravan and left for Ta-li at eleven-thirty after an early tiffin. About two o'clock in the afternoon we reached Hsia-kuan, a large commercial town at the lower end of the lake.
Its population largely consists of merchants and it is by all means the most important business place of interior Yün-nan; Ta-li, eight miles away, is the residence and official city. At Hsia-kuan we called upon the salt commissioner, Mr. Lui, to whom Mr.
The mafus although they had promised faithfully to come "at daylight" did not arrive until nearly noon and in consequence it was necessary to camp at Hsia-kuan at the foot of the lake. We improved our time there in hunting about for skins and finally purchased two fine leopards and a tiger. The latter had been brought from the Tonking frontier.
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