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the prefectural capital of 32 fj fff Yiinnan Fu and the county seat 
of the FE BA BR Kun Ming Magistracy. It lies in Lat. 
25° 06 N., Long. 102° 52 E. of Greenwich, on the very brink of the 
famous Lake jig #, Tien Chih and 2,000 miles by road south-west 
‘from Peking. This vast province is officially divided and subdivided 
for the convenience of better administration in much the same 
manner as other Chinese provinces; that is, as follow :—4 Circuits, 
14 Prefectures, 4 Departments, 3 Districts, 13 sub-Prefectures of 
the Ting class, 26 sub-Prefectures of the Chou class, and 39 
Counties, all of which are entirely under Chinese rule. Besides 
the above, there are 3 Prefectures, 6 sub-Prefectures of the Chou 
class, and 4 Counties, enjoying home rule under herelitary native 
_ chieftains, 
The principal rivers flowing through Yunnan are eight in number, 
and they are named as follows:— 
1.—Chin Sha Kiang 4 YD YT “The River of Golden Sands.” 
2.—Lan-tsang ,, jf] #@ YL Me-kong River 
3.—Lu » YC Salween rf 
4.—Lung Ch‘uan, JI] YL Dragon __,, 
5.—Yin-lung ,, 22 HE YC Tai-ping ,, 
6.4. Hei ff i ope Bia‘) 9) 
7.—Hung » #L YC Red is 
8.—Hsi-yang ,, py FE YE West i 
The first four of these rivers take their rise in Thibet, the other 
four have their sources in Yunnan. None are navigable within the 
geographical limits of the province. The most important, though 
not the largest lake in Yunnan is called }f yh, Tien Chih, a name 
which is more applicable to a pool than to the present respectable 
sheet of water now under notice. Chih means “ pool,” whilst the 
usual Chinese name for lake is #) Hu. Lake Tien is about twenty- 
fives miles long by six or eight broad, and is navigable for boats 
and small steamers. 
The lake is fed by many small streams, and drained by the Pu 
Tu Ho, which river throws its waters into the Chin Sha Kiang, 
about one hundred miles north of the provincial capital. Many 
