TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)
Teng-yuch
Tengyueh, in Western Yunnan, lat. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.,. was opened to British trade under the Burma Convention signed at Peking on the 4th February, 1897, modifying the Convention between Great Britain and China of 1894.. It is a sub-prefectural walled town built in a rice valley watered by the Ti-shui river, a tributary of the Taiping river which joins the Irrawady a few miles above Bhamo, Chich has been the principal frontier mart in upper Burma from time immemorial. Owing to its elevation, 5,300 feet, the climate of Tengyueh is temperate, and much health- ier than that of any of the valleys on the road to Bhamo, many of which are rendered most unhealthy by malignant forms of malarial fever. From Tengyueh to Yunnanfu the road is divided into 24 stages for pack animals, the only form of transport, and 12 for couriers, and Tengyueh to Bhamo is usually accomplished by caravans in seven to eight days.
From Bhamo as far as Talifu, the route crosses a succession of ranges varying from 4,000 to 10,000 ft. in height, which makes any railway scheme, in this direction at least, distinctly chimerical.
The Custom House was opened on the 8th May, 1902, and reliable statistics of the value of the trans-frontier trade using this route will not be available until the statistics for a complete year are published. The principal imports are Cotton Yarn, Raw Cotton and Cotton Piece "Goods.
Exports are chiefly represented by Raw Silk, Orpiment and Chinese medicines. Opium of good quality is grown in the neighbourhood, but its export through Burma is prohibited. The only handicraft of any importance in Tengyueh, the town of which is only gradually recovering from the effects of the Mohammedan rebellion, is the manu- facture of jade ornaments from stone imported from the Burma mines.
DIRECTORY
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Acting Consul-L. A. Mackinnon
### Teng-yueh Hsin-kuan CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-G. F. Montgomery Assistant-C. S. Napier
T'waiters--W. B. Andrews, L. H. Proud
SZEMA O
茅思 Sz-máu
Szemao, opened to the Tonkin frontier trade by the Gérard Convention of 1895, and to British trade by the Burmah Convention of 1896, is situated in the south- western part of the Province of Yunnan in latitude 22 deg. 47 min. 29 sec. N. and longi- tude 100 deg. 46 min. E. It is a sub-prefectural walled town built on a gently rising ground overlooking a well-cultivated plain. The elevation is 4,700 feet above the sen level, and the population is estimated to be about 15,000. The climate is delightful, the temperature rarely exceeding 80 degrees (Fahr.) during the summer and seldom falling below 50 degrees in the winter months. The plague, such a common visitor throughout Yunnan, is almost unknown in Szemao. The place is distant from both Yunnan-fu (the capital of the province) and Mengtsz 18 days, and from the French Laos frontier 6 days and from British territory about 12 days. It was opened in the early part of 1897, and so far has not fulfilled the expectations
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