292 
h 
with people carrying salt. The wild inhabitants of the mountains 
came out, for once in the year, out of their fastnesses, and I think 
itisa fairly correct theory which makes out salt to be the first 
staying-at- md for centuries, has no doubt kept up the extra- 
ordinary — of diferent. Arso ji Bi &c., now existing 
in vemm part 
In the Shan States south and east of Szemao, there is a good deal 
of cultivation of tea, the so-called P’u-érh Tea, co ul which 
you have published in the Kew Bulletin (1889, pp. 118-120; 
139-142), a lot of sary mainly gathered by Borina on his 
trip here, some years ago. This tea is sent to all parts of China 
and to Tibet. I aeri an idea that this region is, perhaps, the site 
of the earliest cultivation of the tea plant; but this section of 
ee A a Pes rds have not been studied ; I presume that they 
xist. the place-names here are Lolo. Szemao in Lolo 
means * Old blood," Talang is the Lolo Ta-la, Leyes &c. 
The ancient Voy ete kingdom of Yunnan is generally 
suppose ed to have been a Shan one; kut I think that the posses 
pid ne a written otitrücter by the Lo los indicates that they o 
vi acp with independent government and fon lees 
civilizatib 
The trug who come here with a few caravans, twice a 
year for tea, are fine, big, strapping sage with loud voices; a 
pair o them measured 6 feet 4 inches in height. These belong 
to the Ku- Tsung t ribe. The diers between them and the 
other races is so gece that one almost fancies the i: Tsung 
to be of € own race (cf bere uod rin are not). The 
Sympathy ; he doesn’t care for their virtues, and dislikes their 
vices e faults intensely. "That the Chinese have great brain- 
only the more speedily bring to t ront the antagonism an 
competition betwee ellow and wh a 
mighty question in the future. I think on this question that the 
ellow race is by nature well.adapted to be t ard-working 
servant, in the hotter regions of the world, of the more vigorous 
white race, which will doubtless stick to temperate regions, 
