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HOKOW ¬TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)

a thin, fever carrying drizzle, which falls in winter and spring. The thick, tropical vegetation is kept inoist, and a light and extremely dangerous mist overhangs everything. Malaria is rampant and claims numerous victims amongst the natives, Foreigners manage to recover by taking large quantities of quinine. During the. summer, foreigners go to Chapa, a summer resort in Tonkin (Altitude: about 1,700 metres; distance from Laokay: 37 kilometres), Since the bridge over the Red River has been finished, a regular motor service is working between Chapa and Laoaky: 2 companies (Veyrene et Cie. and Schneider et Cie.) maintain this service,

DIRECTORY

關分口河

Ho kow fen kwan

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS. (Sub-Office of Mengtz Customs)

Officer-in-charge (Commissioner of Mengtz)-J. C. O'G. Anderson

TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)

Teng yuch

The trade mart Tengyueh situated near the southwestern frontier of Yunnan, in lat. 24 deg. 45 min N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.-was opened to foreign trade under the Burma Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burma and Thibet, and the Custom House was opened on the 8th May, 1902. Tengyueh is a walled town situated in a fertile valley at an altitude of 5,356 feet, with mountains fifteen miles to the north of the town reaching a height of 12,000 feet. The valley is watered by the Tieh Shui river, a small tributary of the Tai Ping, which itself flows into the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, a town which has been the principal emporium of Chinese goods in Upper Burma for many years. From Bhamo, there is a good motor road for the first seventeen miles, and in fact motor cars have once or twice actually gone about twenty miles further, but caravans usually do the last 120 miles of the journey to Tengyueh in six easy stages. On the Burma side of the frontier are two dak bungalows, but once the Sino-Burmese frontier is crossed, at Milestone 56 at the Kulika Bridge, inns, unfortunately none too clean, have to be relied upon--though camping grounds can be found at most stages. The main route now runs through Manhsien and Hsiaohsinkai. There is a telegraph office at the latter place and although the official in charge cannot read English he can despatch telegrams, The old route via Manwyne is now seldon used. Here it was that A, R., Margary, of H. B. M. Consular Service in China, was murdered. His memorial stands in the Bund Gardens in Shanghai. Pack animals and porters constitute the sole means of transport, but freights are fairly cheap between May 1, and the November 1, when travelling is delightful, and expensive during tlie monsoon season, when some 70 inches of rain fall. Mail's always travel by train from Rangoon to Myitkyina and from thence they go through Sadon and Niuchuanho to Tengyueh.. The total time taken being only six days. It is easy to travel over this route, but camping gear is essential owing to the lack of inns. Namkhan, a town some twelve days south of Tengyueh, is now joined to Lashio (a rail-head in Burina) and. Bhamo by motor road.. The road between Tengyueh and Yunnanfu' has been repaired and while caravans take 24 days, travellers can reach Yunnanfu in 17 days. The mail couriers take only twelve days. Owing to the prohibitive cost, there can never be any question of building a railway between the two towns, though it would be a comparatively easy matter to build either a road

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