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reach Fy 4, H@ Pai Sé Ting, Lat. 24° N., Long 106° 20’ E., in one 
month, or six weeks, according to the state of the river current, 
which is sometimes very swift. Pai é Ting, is the centre of a 
considerable amount of trade in Foreign and other goods from 
Canton with Kuei-chou and Yunnan, favourably situated as it is at 
the head of navigation for junks on the West River. There are 
two trade routes leading thence to Yiinnan Fu. It is the first of 
these that I call the sixth route, or Pai Sé Kwang-nan route. 
Leaving Pai Sé Ting and travelling by J& fj if Kuang-nan Fa, 
Lat. 24° 10’N., Long. 105° 06/ E., Yiinnan Fu may be reached in 
about twenty-five days, as follows: Ascending first by boat from 
the city of Pai-sé, we may reach xj] fg Po-ai, which is a market- 
town on the frontier of Yunnan, in three or four days. At Po-ai, 
pack animals and coolie carriers are engaged, journeying thence 
across mountains and valleys the prefectual city of Fy Rg iif Kuang- 
nan Fu, Lat. 24° 10’ N., Long. 105° 06’ E., may be reached in 
seven days, and Yiinnan Fu may be reached in fourteen days more, 
thus making the whole journey by land and water about twenty- 
five days from Pai-sé. Boats from Po-ai to Pai-sé going with the 
stream do that part of the journey easily in one day, thus three 
days are saved on the return journey. The land route accommoda- 
tion is exceedingly bad, cattle and people all herd in the same room 
or shed. Pack animals and coolies are not always to be found at 
Po-ai, especially in the summer months, as the town is very un- 
healthy. 
The seventh route is the Pai-sé Hsing-yi route. This other 
route from Pai-se Ting to Yiinnan Fu passes through the prefectural 
city of Hl 3 )ff Hsing-yi-fu, Lat. 25° 15‘ N., Long. 106° E., in 
Kueichou province. 1t is the route usually followed by officials 
going from Kwangtung and Kwangsi to Yunnan, and has the 
advantage of being somewhat easier than the other, having inns for 
the accommodation of travellers, and provisions for their enter- 
tainment. It is possible to get along better than on the other route, 
but with all this it is still very bad, and the journey cannot be 
accomplished in much less than twenty-five days, twenty-three days 
being considered a good journey. 
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