APPENDIX A 



Point of Departure of Routes 

 and Names of Rivers about 

 which Information was col- 

 lected. 



MiENNING 



Nan-Ting-Ho 



Yi'NCHOU 



KlANoPlX 



Yu.\-Loxg-Cheou 



Fev-Loxg-Kiao 



Routes from Mienning : — 



1. Main road to Yiinchou, 4 days at 15 m. a daw 



[N. 10' E.] Stages — (i) Lating ; {2) You-Ouan- 

 chui ; {3) Taou-Tao-chui : (4) Yiinchou. 



2. From Taou-Tao-chui there is a straight road to 



Chunning-Fou in 4 short days. [N. 35° W.] By 

 this route it is 7 days from Mienning to Chunning- 

 Fou : thus : 4th day, Leu-peu-ten-kai : 5 th, Lima- 

 chin-ivai : 6th, Mong-La ; 7th, Chunning-Fou. 



3. From Ling-chin-kai to Chunning-Fou there is a 



third route, making an elbow to the W., 5 days : 

 1st — ?; 2nd, Sila ; 3rd, Hsiao-tia ; 4th, Ouang- 

 chen-konen : 5th, Chunning-Fou. 



4. From Mienning to Mong-Moun : no details. 



5. From Mienning to the Mekong, ferry at Kali. 



(Marked on my map.) 



6. Another route from Mienning to the Mekong, ferry 



at Mata, 2 days E.S.E. 



This river, which passes near Pochan and Mienning, and 

 of which we discovered the sources above Ponchan, 

 is a large affluent of the Salwen, which it joins a little 

 below Aleng-Ting. 



Direct route from Yunchou to Meng-Hua-Ting and Tali- 

 Fou, 8 days [N. 15" E.] at 15 m. a day; thus: (i) 

 Mong-Lan : (2) Chao-Kai ; (3) Chen-Tchou-Ton (cross 

 the Mekong): (4) Kong-Lan ; (5) Kilung; (6) Lo- 

 Tchiou ; ( 7 ) Tcha-fang-Sao ; (8) Meng-Hua-Ting. 



PART III. MEXG-HUA-TING 

 FONG-CHOUAN 



TO 



Is a stage on a route from Chen-chuan-cheou to Yang-pi. 

 [Kiang-Pin to Chen-chuan N. 10° E. ; Kiang-Pin to 

 Yang-pi S. 25° E.] Stages— (i) Cha-ki ; (2) — ? ; (3) 

 Kiang-Pin ; (4) Kiao-cheou (salt) : (5 ) — ? : (6) Yang-pi. 



Route from Yiinlong-cheou to Yiing-chang-fou, 9 days. 

 [S. 15' W.] Stages — (i) Hsin-Kiao-La-Tchao ; (2) 

 Kang-haitse : (3) — ? ; (4) Yiing-pin ; (5) Lao-Kiao 

 (cross the Mekong); (6) Cha-yong ; (7) Chouitchai ; 

 (8) Pan-kiao (where the route from Tali to Yiing- 

 chang is joined) ; (9) Yiing-chang-fou. 



From Fey-Long-Kiao to Lou-kiang-Pa (.Salwen), 7 days. 

 [S.S.W.] Stages — (i) Kieoui-tcheou ; (2) Toten ; 

 (3) Tsao-kiang ; (4) Sou-Tchoui ; (5) (6)—?; (7) Lou- 

 kiang-Pa (this must be the ferry of that name on the 

 Salwen in the route from Tali to Bhamo in 25° N.). 



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