The race of the population of this city would be an interesting study. There are strong differences from the Chinese type, and many of these people with long straight noses and regular features would appear strange Chinese at Canton or Shanghae. The mixture is probably Lolo or Turk (Mahommedan). The Lolos stretch from their home in South-west Ssu-ch'uan to the borders of Burmah and Tonquin, and perhaps beyond. The variety near Yunnan Fu, the Sa-la Lolo, is a somewhat debased branch of that extended race. Of the Mahommedans there, there are two stocks in the Yunnan Province, centred in Ta-li Fu and Lin-ngan Fu. The former profess to be sprung from Mahommedan soldiers of Genghis Khan, who were settled in Western Yünnan in the thirteenth century by Sa-ha-ma-ting and by the Prince of Hsien-yang (Hsien-yang Wang), lieutenants of that monarch: the latter are said to have migrated from Shensi. Some Mahommedan families can trace their genealogy back to one or other of these hordes without a break. Their family names (Hsing) are usually one of the following syllables, which are said to represent foreign words, Sa, Ha, Ma, Na, Hu, Su, Sai. I had not the time that the subject deserves, but the traveller cannot fail to be struck by the very un-Chinese appearance c some of these Mabommedans.
Chinkiang, May 8, 1887.
(Signed)
FREDK. S. A. BOURNE
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Inclosure 2.
Route Sketch to illustrate preceding Report. II.-Pi-chieh Hsien to Yünnan Fu.
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