492 : PROCEEDINGS. 
Yunnan province, and distant from the provincial capital about 
twenty-two days’ journey, over the same kind of rough and rugged 
roads common to all parts of the Yun-kuei Vice-royalty. Pack 
animals and coolie carriers are also indispensable on this route. 
England cannot, of course, build railroads in China, but she can do 
so in’Burma, and the sooner it is done the better, in order to place 
her manufactures as near as possible to the distributing markets 
at reasonable prices. This has often been spoken of as the most 
promising route for the developement of British trade with Yunnan, 
and it no doubt posessses certain advantages which must not be lost 
sight of. 
Fine river steamers ascend the Irrawaddi River as far up as 
Bhamo, and it would not be a very difficult matter to build a railway 
from Bhamo, across the Katchyen Hills to Man-Yin on the Chinese 
frontier side of those hills, but the wild Katchyens are troublesome 
people. They must be tamed, and given, or found, a suitable means 
of livelihood, otherwise they will always prove a nuisance and terror, 
as they have been for ages, to all traders passing through their 
country. Man-Yin is distant from the nearest Chinese city, 
Téng Yueh T‘ing, four days’ journey, or about eighty miles on an 
easy road, through a well cultivated and fertile plain. JR #% 
Téng Yueh T‘ing is a sub-Prefecture of Yung Chang Fu, and the 
sub-Prefectural city lies in Lat. 24° 58' N., Long. 98° 45’ E. 
The city of Téng Yueh is, however, still four days’ journey distant 
from Yung Chang Fu, twelve days from Ta-li Fu, and twenty-five 
days from Yunnan Fu, the Provincial capital. This road, lying as 
it does across three large rivers and six ranges of high mountains, 
is far from proving an easy one to railway-makers across the 
province of Yunnan. The best thing England can do for her 
manufacturers is to transport the produce of their industry as near 
and cheaply as possible to the consuming markets, on the frontiers 
‘of China. 
The next route is the Pai-sé-kuang-nan route. Travellers on this 
route leaving Canton in a junk may come up the West River to 
4% HA KF Wa-chou Fu, Kuangsi province, in about eight days, at 
all seasons of the year, thence passing fj @f ff Nan-ning Fu 
