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“women much better than their native tribesmen, The offspring of 
such mixed alliances are usually better looking and more intelligent 
than either of their parents, and as they all speak two or more 
languages they generally serve as interpreters in the Chinese 
yaméns, or in one or other of the petty courts of the native tribal 
chief, to whom they are allied by their maternal kindred. Some 
of these interpreters of mixed parentage become persons of wealth 
and great influence by reason of their office, and are justly respected 
by all classes. Some of them, however, only succed in exciting the 
hatred of all persons who know them, Having acquired only the 
vices of both races, without the virtues of either, they concentrate 
in themselves the very essence of evil, ending their last days in the 
lowest depths of infamy. 
Yunnan is bounded on the north by Thibet and Ssii-ch‘uan; on 
the south by Siam, Annam, and Tongking; on the east by Kuei- 
Chow and Kuang-si, and on the west by Assam and Burma, 
It is thus surrounded on three sides by foreign countries, the 
inhabitants of which are probably of kindred race with one or eo 
of the various tribes inhabiting those parts of Yunnan adjoining 
their respective states. eo a i 
The armies of the Chinese Emperor Han Wu Ti are said to have 
penetrated into Yunnan in the second century B.C., bat no suocessfal 
colonisation of the country was effected until the third century 4-p., 
when the armies of Sin Pi, under the distinguished competes 
Chu Ko Siang, invaded the country, and subjugated its EET 
to the sovereign rule of the Minor Han state, the capital of whic 
state was at Chéng-tu Fa, in Ssti-ch‘uan. iderytal ody fon 
Yunnan does oak appear to have been regularly annexed ar 
officially administered as a Chinese province are ae i: Fike 
century, when Kublai Khan, the Mongolian con Agee “eo 
Chinese Empire, penetrated with his VaOnyae ign oo yaa aud 
whole of Yunnan, even to Burma, imposing his Imperial side 
both those countries, and in fact over nearly the Lite : Aa ah 
et? ; “including the Viceroyalty 
The provincial government of Yunnan—menis'ls © iv oP walled 
of the Yun-Kuei Provinces—is centered iat Tralee im Tp 
city, called SE jj @ $a Viinnan Shéng Ch'eng. © 
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