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Updated: May 9, 2025
I abandoned pedestrianism and rode to Chiu-Ch'eng two full days, and when, after a pleasant rest under a sheltering banyan, we went our different ways, I was sorry indeed to have to fall back upon my men for companionship. But it was not to be for long. Nantien is, or was, to be a fort, but the little place bears no outward military evidences whatever which would lead one to believe it.
A confession of foiled plans. Nantien as a questionable fort. About the Shans. Village squabble, and how it ended. Absence of disagreement in Shan language. Charming people, but lazy. Experience with Shan servant. At Chiu-Ch'eng. New Year festivities. After-dinner diversions. Author as a medico. Ingratitude of the Chinese: some instances. The Shan, the Kachin and the abominable betel quid!
"Bones," my opium-eating coolie with the long neck, slipped into a hole which was too deep even for his long shanks, and all my bedding was wetted. It was ninety li to Nantien, the fort we were bound to beyond Tengyueh, and we finished the distance by sundown. The town is of little importance.
The few rusty cast-iron ten-pounders that lie hors de combat in the mud have long since become useless. There may be ammunition in the fort; but there is none to be seen. The fort of Nantien is a fort in name only it has no need to be otherwise, for peace and quiet are abroad in the valley.
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