92 Mr. Davids Geograpldcal Notice of 



taen (Nan-teen'), and the third Tong-ye-chew {Teng-yue-cho'w), constituting 

 the three first stages on the route from Ava towards Yun-nan city : and 

 these three stations are placed on the northern stream, corresponding with 

 the Pin-lang-Keang, instead of that which answers to the Lung-chtten- 

 Keang of the Chinese map, to the southward. Now I should think, from 

 the name of the first of these, Limg-chuen, that it is properly placed in the 

 MS. map on Lung-chuen river, and consequently the two others ; and that 

 the route towards Yun-nan, in fact, Hes on the southern stream instead of 

 the northern. Were tiiis found to be the fact, Lung-chuen-Keang would 

 also be the real Bhan-mo or Pan-mo-Keang. This seems to be confirmed by 

 the Chinese map. Below Lung-chuen station towards Ava, we find imme- 

 diately on the border Meng-maou, or as it is pronounced in the south, 

 Men"--mo, which I think is very likely to be intended for Bhan-mo or Pan- 

 mo, called Bamoo by Symes, and stated by him to be the chief point of 

 commercial intercourse between the two countries. The spirit of Chinese 

 encroachment might be disposed to include this in their own map, with 

 some violation of its real locality. 



With respect to the route laid down in the English map, from Bhan-mo 

 through Yung-chang-Foo and Ta-le-Foo, towards Yun-nan city, it is not 

 likely that the natives of Ava are frequently allowed to enter so far into the 

 Chinese territory. This is more probably the track of the merchants and 

 emissaries of the latter, in their commercial speculations towards the 

 frontier. Symes states, that the Chinese envoys, whom he found at Ame- 

 rapura, were, as far he could ascertain, merely a provincial deputation, and 

 not imperial ambassadors from Peking. This indeed is most likely, being 

 in unison with the general maxims of Chinese foreign policy. They say, 

 " attach no value to what is foreign, and strangers will resort to you." 



It is deserving of notice, that Mancheegee is mentioned by Symes as the 

 Burmese name for Yun-nan ; and that Maiigee is the name given by Marco 

 Polo to the southern part of China. The northern he calls Cathay. 



The country which forms the western part of Yun-nan province is allowed 

 to be mountainous, wild, and thinly peopled ; and I understand from Pere 

 L'Amiot, who has resided more than thirty years at Peking, that it is con- 

 sidered by the Chinese as unhealthy. It was his fortune to fall in with a 

 Tartar oflicer who had served in the army sent against the Burmese empire 

 in 1767, and stated by Symes to have amounted to fifty thousand men, of 

 which army very few individuals escaped back to their own country. The 



