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PREFACE 
HE following chapters record my experiences and 
observations in Western China and South-Eastern 
Tibet during the year 1911, when I was engaged in 
collecting plants for the horticultural firm of Bees Ltd. 
Liverpool. 
The sketch maps are drawn from Major Davies’s map 
of Yunnan, with additions and corrections of my own. 
While the latter in no sense represent accurate surveys, I 
think that they will be of assistance to the reader, possibly 
even to future travellers. The photographs I took myself. 
A great deal of the pleasure derived from looking back 
on a year’s work in a distant land is associated with memories 
of the friends I made, and the help they so willingly 
gave me. 
To Mr Archibald Rose, C.I.E., at that time British 
Acting-Consul in T‘eng-yueh, I owe more than I can say. 
When I entered Yunnan in February 1911, the people were 
restless, and it seemed at first that I might not be able 
to proceed beyond T‘eng-yueh. However, Mr Rose, having 
suggested A-tun-tsi as a likely centre for my plant hunting, 
promised to see that I got safely thus far, and did so. Not 
only did A-tun-tsi prove a first-rate collecting ground, but 
thenceforward everything went smoothly. 
Mr E. B. Howell, Commissioner of Customs at T‘eng- 
yueh, brightened many a lonely hour for me by forwarding 
newspapers and sending up my mails, which came, on the 
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