Chapter XV

. of this book; as for the three others, the remarks made upon them in the _T'ung Chih_ leave us very much in the dark. The characteristics of the _i jên_ are dismissed in four lines. We are told that the Chia-mi and Yüeh-ku are very like one another, and that the women allow their hair to hang over their shoulders. The Hsü-mi males cultivate a queue, and the women do up their hair into a pointed coiffure. They are docile, and of an amiable disposition. The Mo-so and Hsi Fan are like each other, and honest and tractable by nature. Their clothes are made of woven cloth, and their coats button under the left arm (_tso jên_; _cf._ the Confucian _Lun Yü_, p. 282, Legge's edn.) The men wear queues and the women do up their hair. They live by agriculture. They are fond of hunting wild animals. This is all the _T'ung Chih_ has to tell us about the people of Muli. The section ends with the laconic remark that lawsuits are decided by the _k'an-po_.

[Sidenote: THE LANGUAGE-TEST OF RACE]

Chinese customs certainly seem to be losing rather than gaining ground in Muli: the queues worn by some of the men do not hang down the back but are coiled round the head; and it is not a mark of respect, as in China, to uncoil the queue. Moreover the front of the head is not shaved, as in China. The remarks about the women are true enough: a large proportion wear their hair loose, so that they look like rather overgrown and unwieldy school-girls; the rest have more or less elaborate coiffures, but the female fashions of China in this respect are totally ignored. I will leave the task of identifying the Chia-mi, Yüeh-ku and Hsü-mi to some future investigator with more time and leisure than fell to my lot. Tibetans, Li-so, Man-tzŭ or Lolos, Kachins and Mo-so are all doubtless to be found among the people of Muli, and it seems not improbable that the predominant type is Mo-so.

NOTE 35 (p. 222)

THE LANGUAGE-TEST OF RACE

The collection of hastily-compiled and doubtless very inaccurate vocabularies to be found in Appendix A need not be taken as indicating any belief in the value of such lists of words from either the philological or the ethnological point of view. They are given merely for what they are worth, as an infinitesimal addition to the small stock of general knowledge that we already possess with regard to the tribes of western China. The old faith in language as a sure test of race has long been given up. A page or two of skull measurements would help us more towards settling the racial problems of western China than the completest equipment of grammars and dictionaries. Unfortunately the methods employed by many of the tribes for the disposal of their dead will seriously hamper the investigations of the craniologist who, in the hopes of a rich harvest of inexorable bones, may take his measuring-tape to the graveyards of western China.

NOTE 36 (p. 226)

HIGHEST HABITATION ON THE GLOBE

The land of Muli is as wild and mountainous as that of Chala. It was between Muli and the Yalung that M. Bonin discovered what he believes to be the highest inhabited station on the globe, at a height of 16,568 feet, "a hamlet occupied in the dead of winter by a few yak-herdsmen." The mines of Tok-ya-long in western Tibet, he says, which have hitherto been considered the highest habitation in the world are 525 feet lower, and moreover are not inhabited all the year round. There are other spots both in Muli and Chala, probably of a greater height than 16,000 feet, that are inhabited, though the huts are probably not occupied in winter.

NOTE 37 (p. 233)

FEMALE CHIEFS

In the Shan States female rulers are apparently not uncommon. (See _Gazetteer of Upper Burma_, pt. i. vol. i. p. 262.) For an interesting note on several Tibetan "queens" (derived from native and Chinese sources) see Rockhill's _Land of the Lamas_, pp. 339-341. Sa-mong is better known as So-mo. A recent European visitor to this country says that the "queen" or _nü-wang_ of So-mo is only a myth, "the real monarch being actually a man, who for some obscure reason calls himself a Queen." (W. C. Haines Watson, _A Journey to Sung-p'an, in J.R.A.S._ (_China_), vol. xxxvi., 1905.) The _Ssuch'uan T'ung Chih_ contains references to several female _t'u ssŭ_. A female _t'u pai hu_, with a territorial name of six syllables, is mentioned as becoming tributary to China in K'ang Hsi 60. She paid 20 taels annually as "horse-money." The _Ch'ang Kuan Ssŭ_ of Sung Kang is--or may be--a woman. One is mentioned as receiving honours from China in K'ang Hsi 23. Another female _ch'ang kuan ssŭ_ in the Chien-ch'ang Valley (Hu-li-ho-tung) is described as being a tribute-payer to the extent of ten horses a year.

NOTE 38 (p. 246)

LI-CHIANG-FU

An old name of Li-chiang was Sui (嶲), and its inhabitants, in the days of the Early Han dynasty, appear to have been known as the K'un Ming (昆明). Their fierceness and lawlessness were instrumental in preventing the Emperor Wu Ti, in the second century B.C., from establishing a trade route from China to India through their territory. (See T. W. Kingsmill's _Intercourse of China with Eastern Turkestan_, _J.R.A.S._, January 1882.)

NOTE 39 (p. 259)

THE REBELLION IN YUNNAN

The best account of the Mohammedan rebellion is to be found in M. Émile Rocher's _La Province Chinoise du Yunnan_, vol. ii. pp. 30-192. The origin of the rebellion is to be traced to a comparatively trifling dispute among miners, which took place in 1855 in a mining centre situated between Yunnan-fu and Tali-fu. The Mohammedan section of miners, who all worked together, aroused envy and hatred because they had struck richer veins of metal than the "orthodox" Chinese miners in a neighbouring locality, and the result was a violent dispute which ended in blows. The official who was responsible for good order in the district was seized with panic and fled to Yunnan-fu, where he submitted reports that were unjustifiably hostile to the Mohammedans. The latter meanwhile had rendered themselves masters of the situation, and drove their opponents off the field. The people of the neighbouring town of Linan avenged this insult by attacking the Mohammedans in overwhelming force and expelling them to the forests. This was the beginning of a series of bloodthirsty combats, which in a short time set the whole province in a blaze, and caused the loss of millions of human lives.

So far as race went, the Mohammedans of Yunnan were no other than ordinary Yunnanese. They were marked off from their fellow-provincials solely by their religion. This, however, was sufficient to cause them to be treated almost as foreigners, for they had little intercourse with orthodox Chinese, and seem to have intermarried among themselves. Whether the Mohammedans of Yunnan and other parts of China were--and are--strict observers of the rules of their religion is a doubtful point. Rocher says of the Yunnanese Mohammedans that "they have preserved intact the beliefs of their ancestors, and they rigorously observe the rules imposed upon them by the Koran." Other observers, however,--including Mohammedan natives of India--have scoffed at their co-religionists of Yunnan, declaring that they know nothing of the tenets of Islam, and obey none of the rules of their faith except that of abstinence from pork. I have myself seen Chinese Mohammedan children undergoing the pains of having page after page of Arabic drilled into their little heads, though both they and their teachers admitted that they did not understand the meaning of a single word. The fact remains, however, that some Chinese Mohammedans do still occasionally make the pilgrimage to Mecca; and well-attended Mohammedan mosques may yet be found in at least half the provinces of China.

Chinese Mohammedans have often proved a thorn in the flesh of the official classes, not only in Yunnan, but also in Kansu and elsewhere. Yet it cannot be said that they have shown much of that fiery religious fanaticism which has sometimes characterised Islam elsewhere. The great rebellion in Yunnan did not originate in any religious dispute, and it would never have developed into a war that lasted nearly twenty years and laid waste a province, if only a few able and impartial officials had given their attention to the matter in its early stages.

Two circumstances helped to prolong the struggle. The first was the great T'ai P'ing rebellion in eastern China, which rendered the central Government powerless to deal effectually with the situation in Yunnan; the second was the military skill of the Mohammedan leaders, which led to the concentration of the whole Mohammedan strength in the hands of a few able men.

[Sidenote: OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF WESTERN TRIBES]

The history of the war cannot be sketched here. It may be sufficient to say that at one time nearly the whole province was in the hands of the Mohammedan rebels; even Yunnan-fu itself capitulated to their victorious arms. Before this took place, the great Mohammedan leader, Tu Wên-hsiu, had already greatly distinguished himself in the west of the province. Against the will of the viceroy, who committed suicide, the officials had in 1856 planned and carried out a massacre of all Mohammedans found within a radius of 800 _li_ from the capital. The news of the massacre naturally roused in Tu Wên-hsiu intense feelings of indignation and hatred against the provincial Government which had sanctioned an act of such hideous barbarity, and his natural abilities and high reputation for courage and integrity soon singled him out for leadership. His first great victory secured him the city of Tali, which became the Mohammedan headquarters. In 1867 he was proclaimed Imam or Sultan, and Tali became the capital of a short-lived Mohammedan state. It was held till 1873, when Tu Wên-hsiu, faced by hopeless odds, surrendered it and poisoned himself. Before this time the genius of General Gordon had put an end to the T'ai P'ing rebellion, and the imperial Government was in a position to oppose the Sultan with an overwhelming force. Only one result was possible. With the capitulation of Tali and the death of Tu Wên-hsiu the Mohammedans were able to make no further headway against the imperial troops.

One of the most terrible results of this hideous civil war was the recrudescence of the deadly disease now too well known to us all as the plague. After the war the pestilence gradually spread far beyond the limits of the province, and is still the annual scourge of south China and India. It is probable, however, that plague has for many centuries been endemic in the valleys of western Yunnan. The accounts given of it by such writers as Rocher and Baber, who witnessed its ravages in Yunnan long before the fatal year when it was first observed in Hong Kong (1894), are of great interest. The curious fact that rats always seemed to be attacked before human beings was noted by Rocher many years before the disease began to be studied by medical experts. (See Rocher, _op. cit._, vol. i. p. 75; vol. ii. pp. 279-281.)

NOTE 40 (p. 273)

CHINESE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF WESTERN TRIBES

Several volumes of the official Provincial Annals of Yunnan are devoted to a most elaborate quasi-ethnological enquiry into the various tribal communities of that province. Unfortunately, the conscientious industry of the compilers coupled with their bland credulity and lack of critical training led them to fill their pages with a great deal of matter that is useless and misleading. The numbers and names of the tribes are quite unnecessarily multiplied, and there is hardly any attempt at classification or at the tracing of origins. Subdivisions of the same race are treated as entirely separate, and any similarities between them are either ignored or merely mentioned as unexplained facts. Yet it must be admitted that as descriptions of tribal customs and as store-houses of tradition and folk-lore the ethnological sections of the Annals are by no means to be despised. The _T'ung Chih_ of Ssuch'uan is less satisfactory in this respect than that of Yunnan.

NOTE 41 (p. 284)

THEORY OF INDIAN ORIGIN OF TRIBES

It seems quite clear that the Licchavis--or the great Vaggian or Vrijian clan-system to which they belonged and from which the Mauryans sprang--were neither Aryans nor Dravidians. In all probability they were of Kolarian or Munda race. The Kolarians seem to have entered India from the north-east--just as the Aryans afterwards entered it from the north-west--and extended themselves over vast areas from which they were subsequently driven by Dravidians and Aryans. They must have originally come from the countries that lay to the east, which we now know as Burma, China and Indo-China. They probably left many of their Kolarian kinsfolk behind them, and it may have been through keeping up communications with the latter that they were able to introduce into their old homes something of the new culture and civilisation that they acquired in their new homes in India. The Kolarian dialects are known to be akin to those of certain tribes in Burma, and so far as personal characteristics are concerned a description of the Kolarian tribes as they are known to-day in parts of Bengal would be applicable, word for word, to some of the peoples of Indo-China and Yunnan. "The Kolarian people," says Mr J. F. Hewitt, who lived among them, "may generally be described as gregarious, excitable, turbulent when roused, but generally peaceable and good-humoured. They are brave and adventurous, witty, and very fond of amusement, not given to work more than is necessary, and as a rule very careless of the future." (_J.R.A.S._, vol. xx. p. 330.) It must be remembered, however, that the Burmese people, to whom these words are also applicable, are now believed by the best authorities to have come from "the Mongolian countries north of Magadha." (Sir George Scott's _Burma_, p. 66.)

Many of the tribes of western China--some of the Lolos and Min-chia, for instance--are often described as possessing a type of features that is almost European; and Mr Kingsmill seems to derive from this fact some support of his theory of their Indian (Aryan) origin. "The distinctive colouring," he says, "closely approximates to the Aryan type of the Indian peninsula," etc. (_J.R.A.S._ (China Branch), vol. xxxv. p. 95.) But the Mauryans themselves, as we have seen, were not of Aryan origin. The Licchavis are referred to in Manu as one of the "base-born" castes for that very reason--in spite of the fact that they possessed great power and prestige and very wide influence. It seems very doubtful whether an Aryan emigration from India to China took place at any time. India always offered full scope for all Aryan energies; indeed we know that the Aryans by no means became so universally predominant, even in India, as one might gather from the early and wide extension of their language and religion. If there really is an Aryan element among the tribes of western China it would be curious to speculate on the possibility of its having come by a non-Indian route.

NOTE 42 (p. 285)

CHANDRAGUPTA AND ASOKA

Chandragupta's reign probably began in 320 B.C., and his grandson Asoka ruled from ? 264 to ? 228. The chronology is not yet absolutely fixed, but I rely with some confidence on the dates recently selected by J. F. Fleet (_J.R.A.S._, October 1906, pp. 984 _seq._) who, it may be remarked incidentally, assigns the death of the Buddha to B.C. 482.

NOTE 43 (p. 285)

VESÂLI AND THE LICCHAVIS

For further information regarding Vesâli and the Licchavis see W. W. Rockhill's _Life of the Buddha_, pp. 62 _seq._, and 203 (_footnote_), Dr Rhys Davids' _Buddhist India_, pp. 40-41, and two articles by Mr Vincent Smith in the Royal Asiatic Society's _Journal_ for April 1902 and January 1905. One of Mr Rockhill's Tibetan authorities connects the Licchavis with the Sakyas or Çakyas to whom the Buddha himself belonged. "The Çakyas," says this authority, were "divided into three parts, whose most celebrated representatives were Çakya the Great (the Buddha), Çakya the Licchavi, and Çakya the Mountaineer. Grya Khri btsan po, the first Tibetan King, belonged to the family of Çakya the Licchavi. Many other Buddhist sovereigns of India and elsewhere claimed the same descent." This note is of interest as showing the wide extent and long duration of Licchavi influence, and the desire of powerful races and kings to trace a connection with the family of the Buddha. "Çakya, the Licchavi" may, of course, have become a member of the clan by adoption. Caste-rules (even supposing they precluded adoption) did not hold good among the Licchavis, who were not Aryans. With respect to the possible connection of the Buddha's family with the Licchavis, all that can be said for certain is that the Licchavis were among the earliest and most devoted supporters of the Buddhist faith, and that Vesâli soon became a city of great religious importance. Buddhism, indeed, was less of an Aryan religion than people have been in the habit of supposing. The Sakyas themselves were almost certainly an Aryan people; we know that their exclusiveness and intense pride of birth brought about the destruction of their capital at the hands of Vidūdabha. But it seems quite clear that Buddhism progressed most rapidly and won its greatest victories among people of non-Aryan race, and this not only in foreign lands but in India itself. Buddhism did not achieve its wonderful successes in India in the third century B.C. and afterwards by means of the conversion of Brahmans. It is far truer to say that Buddhism spread on account of its adoption by northern non-Aryan tribes which, in spite of Aryan conquests, remained very powerful both in numbers and in political influence. (See on this point B. H. Baden-Powell's _Notes on the Origin of the "Lunar" and "Solar" Aryan Tribes_, _J.R.A.S._, April 1899, pp. 298-299.)

NOTE 44 (p. 289)

THE SERES

The Seres are mentioned by Virgil, Strabo, Lucan, Pliny and Pomponius Mela. Lucan seems to have supposed that they were an African race--neighbours of the Ethiopians. Such ignorance in Nero's age may be excused when we remember the wild theories prevalent in mediæval Europe as to the local habitation of Prester John!

NOTE 45 (p. 332)

ARCHÆOLOGICAL WORK

Some valuable work--of special interest to the student of Buddhism--has quite recently been carried out at Pagan by Mr I. H. Marshall and Dr Sten Konow. (See _J.R.A.S._, October 1907, pp. 1003 _seq._) It is earnestly to be hoped that that Government will some day see fit to provide for the proper support of the Archæological Department, which cannot be expected to carry out good work at Pagan or elsewhere without funds. Every year's delay will render the work of excavation more difficult and more costly. It is not pleasing to observe that the Archæological Departments of India, Burma and Ceylon are all starved. Only a few weeks after the conclusion of the recent Franco-Siamese treaty it was announced in the French press that steps were being taken forthwith to carry out some expensive archæological and preservative work at the magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat, which are within the Cambodian territory acquired by France under the treaty. Is England always to lag behind France in matters of this kind?

NOTE 46 (p. 335)

THE BURMESE LABOUR QUESTION

One aspect of the labour question in Burma does not seem to have attracted the attention it deserves. In spite of Mr Fielding Hall's optimism, the belief that the apathetic Burman is being shouldered out of his own country by more hard-working immigrants, especially natives of India, is a very prevalent one, not only among European observers, but even among some classes of the Burmese themselves. At present no Burman dares to raise a protest against the influx of labourers, who, if they do not utterly crush him in the course of the struggle for existence, may at least degrade him from the high level of comfort and social well-being in which he now lives. The day may come when the Burman will demand that this alien immigration be interdicted. If he does so, what will be the attitude of the Government? Probably anything but sympathetic. The White races of Australia, British Columbia and California object to the influx of Chinese and Japanese labourers for reasons practically identical with those that would actuate the Burman, and if their attitude is a justifiable one can it be argued that the Burmese attitude would not be equally so? The Burman would doubtless be told by the European, whose material interests in Burma depend on the unrestricted immigration of hard-working aliens, that his country cannot be allowed to go to waste; that if he, through his laziness, will not develop it to the utmost, some one else must be found who will develop it in his stead. But the Chinese and Japanese might if they were strong enough--and perhaps some day they will be strong enough--knock at the gates of Australia, Canada and the United States, and demand admission on precisely similar grounds. No one will deny that the scarcity and high price of labour in those countries have seriously retarded, and are still retarding, nearly every form of industrial and agricultural development; yet the Yellow races are excluded on the grounds that they would lower the White man's standard of living, and that they are in the habit of sending their earnings out of the country. I do not say the White man's attitude is unreasonable: but I do not see how, on our own principles, we could refuse to restrict the immigration of black aliens into Burma if the Burmese people--on grounds identical with those that actuate our own conduct in Canada and elsewhere--demanded that we should do so. Such action would no doubt be an artificial restriction of natural economic tendencies, and so might bring its own punishment in the long-run; but the same remark applies to the policy adopted in our own colonies.

We have recently become so much accustomed to hear of the antagonism and rivalry of interests between East and West--as if all Eastern countries represented one set of immutable ideals and all Western countries another--that we are apt to lose ourselves in a mist of generalities. The East has problems of its own to solve, some of which reproduce in a more restricted area the racial problems that are beginning at a late hour to agitate the minds of statesmen in Europe and America. The European speaks with half-hearted contempt (behind which lurks a secret dread) of a Yellow Peril: the Burman is disquieted by a no less threatening Black Peril that is already within his gates, and his gates still stand open with a dangerous hospitality.

NOTE 47 (p. 384)

MILITARY QUALITIES OF ORIENTALS

The British officers who trained and led the recently-disbanded Chinese Regiment are known to have formed a high opinion of the personal courage of the Chinese as represented by the men of that regiment. When it is remembered that the very existence of the regiment as a unit in the British Army was an anomaly, and that at Tientsin and Peking the men fought as mercenaries against their own countrymen, the fact that they behaved well under fire is all the more noteworthy. It may be taken for granted that even the Japanese soldier, if ordered to charge an unruly mob of his own countrymen, would hardly show the brilliant daring that he displayed before Port Arthur.

When Europe was startled by the news of some of the great Japanese victories in Manchuria, an English newspaper made the somewhat hasty suggestion that the Japanese were "scientific fanatics," and the phrase was caught up and repeated with approbation by many. Why fanatics? Simply because the Japanese troops had behaved with such unheard-of heroism that Europe was unable to reconcile such conduct with its own ideas of what constituted bravery. What many Englishmen said, in effect, was this: "The conduct ordinarily shown by British troops in

## action is bravery; to go beyond this is fanaticism. The criterion of

true courage is the average conduct of the average British soldier on the field of battle." The Japanese who with reckless gallantry gave their lives for emperor and country on the battle-fields of Liao-tung, and who considered it a disgrace to return home without a wound, were fanatics. Well, if so, it is a kind of fanaticism that every European Government would like to see spread among its own fighting-men when the day of battle comes.

NOTE 48 (p. 388)

"THE YELLOW PERIL"

With some people the antipathy to the Oriental amounts to a positive horror, inexplicable even by themselves in ordinary language, and very often based on no personal experience. "I know not," said De Quincey, "what others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie deep, and some of them must be common to others.... In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern Asia, I am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, by the barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin, with crocodiles or snakes." When we have made all allowances for the excited utterances of an opium-dreamer, these words indicate the existence of intensely strong feelings of racial antipathy, and there is no reason to regard De Quincey as the only European who has entertained such feelings. Does our subliminal consciousness retain dim ancestral memories of mighty struggles waged æons ago for the survival and supremacy of our own racial type? And does it harbour a vague prophetic dread of a more terrific warfare yet to come?

What is perhaps at the root of this horror of Asiatics felt by some Europeans is an instinctive feeling that the world is not large enough to contain or afford free play for the energies of both races; coupled perhaps with an ugly doubt whether, in spite of all the great material achievements of the West in recent years, the European type is after all the fittest to survive in the struggle for existence. Huxley long ago reminded us that the "survival of the fittest" does not necessarily imply the survival of the "best" or most highly developed. He points out, for instance, that if certain conceivable changes were to come about in atmospheric conditions, the law of the survival of the fittest might bring about the extinction of all living things except "lichens, diatoms, and such microscopic organisms as those which give red snow its colour."[416] They would be the sole survivors of the struggle for existence because they alone were adapted to the new environment. It may be that at some future period in the course of the struggle--though long before we have reached the lichen and diatom stage--certain conditions may prove hostile to the continued existence of the White races and favourable to that of the Yellow. Lafcadio Hearn, who in spite of his "de-occidentalisation" admitted the superiority of the Western races--without explaining what he meant by "superiority"--expressed the belief that in the "simple power of living" they are immensely inferior to those of the East. "The Occidental," he says, "cannot live except at a cost sufficient for the maintenance of twenty Oriental lives. In our very superiority lies the secret of our fatal weakness. Our physical machinery requires a fuel too costly to pay for the running of it in a perfectly conceivable future period of race-competition and pressure of population." He conjectures that some day the Western peoples may be crushed out of existence, their successors scarcely regretting their disappearance "anymore than we ourselves regret the extinction of the dinotherium or the ichthyosaurus." Why indeed should they? When we consider how seldom the memory even of our own dead ancestors touches our sympathies or prompts an affectionate thought it will not seem strange that in the days to come the victorious Yellow man may regard the extinct White man with no more emotion than the visitor to a museum now regards the wire-linked bones of a prehistoric monster. No creature that is doomed to failure in the struggle for existence need look to the conquerors for the least sign of pity or sympathy. The poor dodo has vanished from the scene of its joys and sorrows for ever, but that is not the reason why the nightingale's song is sometimes a sad one. No less cheerfully warbles the thrush because the great auk will flap his ineffectual wings no more. Even the crocodile refrains from shedding tears over the fossil remains of the Triassic _stagonolepis_.

It behoves us to remember that victory in the struggle for existence is not a victory once and for all. The doom of the conqueror in this fight is that he must never sheathe his sword. The prize goes always to him who deserves it, but no rest is allowed him when the battle is over. New challengers are ever pressing into the lists, and the challenged must go ever armed and with lance in rest.

The grim tragedy once enacted periodically at Aricia might be interpreted, not too fancifully, as a miniature representation of the more terrible struggle that is for ever in progress throughout the whole world of animate nature. The guardian of the Golden Bough--

"The priest who slew the slayer, And shall himself be slain"--

retained his position and his life only so long as they were not challenged by one more vigorous or more dexterous than himself.

The great nations of the West have won their material pre-eminence by overcoming weaker competitors, who in their turn had once been conquerors. They will keep their prizes so long as they deserve to keep them, and no longer. Exclusion laws and trades-unions and cunning appliances wrought by scientific and intellectual skill may stave off the day of disaster, but if the White races have no better support than such things as these, for them the day of doom will assuredly dawn.

Yet a struggle for predominance among great sections of the human race need not imply actual physical warfare. If the Yellow races are to be supreme, it will be partly because the White races have suicidally contributed to their own ruin. If White men become too intensely careful of the individual life, and too careless of the welfare of the race; if they allow luxury to sap their energies and weaken their moral fibre; if they insist too strongly on "rights" and show too slack a devotion to "duty"; if they regard the accumulation of wealth as the be-all and end-all of existence; if selfishness impels their young men to avoid matrimony, and their young women to shun the duties of maternity; if they give way to these and other social vices to which our age bears witness, they cannot reasonably expect to compete advantageously with people who have no craving for luxury, and scarcely know what it means; who look not to wealth as a means for individual aggrandisement; who are at all times willing to sink personal interests in the larger interests of family and clan; who are tireless and uncomplaining workers; among whom parenthood is a religious necessity, and artificial restrictions of the birth-rate are practically unknown; and whose women are free from political aspirations and willing to do their duty at the domestic fireside and in the nursery.

The Yellow Peril, then, is no mere myth: let so much be granted. Yet the recognition of its existence need not drive us to utter pessimism, so long as our faults are not irremediable, and our virtues not reduced to inactivity. The shaping of our fate lies, to some extent at least, in our own hands, and, after all, the outlook for the West is not entirely gloomy. The mere proximity of a peril does not make the brave man falter and tremble; on the contrary, it braces his nerves, and increases his alertness. If the East has qualities and virtues that make for great strength, it is no less clearly lacking in other qualities and virtues that still find a home in the West. The Yellow Peril, so far from driving us to a cowardly despair, may and should have the effect of raising our courage, ennobling our ideals, up rooting our selfishness and purifying Western society. It may enable us to see that in some respects our aims have been false ones, and that our views of the essentials of progress and of civilisation must be partially modified. The recognition of the existence of our own diseases may lead to the discovery of the means of cure. The East has begun in recent years to learn some valuable lessons from the West; is it not time that we returned the compliment? If we could but bring ourselves to do so, perhaps at no very distant period the Yellow Peril might turn out to be the White Salvation.

FOOTNOTES:

[414] See Waddell's _Lhasa and its Mysteries_, pp. 434 _seq._

[415] _Op. cit._, p. 439.

[416] See _Evolution and Ethics_, pp. 80-81 (Eversley edn.).

GENERAL INDEX

_The references in Roman numerals are to the Notes_

Administration of state of Muli, 214 _seq._, xxxi., xxxiii., xxxiv.

Alabaster, image of the Buddha, 86

Amban, 133 _seq._

American Baptist Mission, 114-115

Amitabhism, 73-74, 77

Ancestral worship, 80-81

_An fu shih ssŭ_, xxii., xxxiv.

Animism, 77, 348 _seq._

Anti-foreign feeling in China, 12, 18, 34, 355-356, 358 _seq._

Anti-opium regulations, 25, 385

Antiquities of Mount Omei, 86-87, vi.

Arahat, 69 _seq._, 72, 89-91, 95, 96, 109

Arahatship, 69 _seq._

Archæological work in the Far East, 332, xlv.

Architecture in western Yunnan, 299; in Burma, 325 _seq._

Art, in China, 42, 378 _seq._; in Burma, 326, 332, 335; decay of Burmese, under European influence, 335

Artillery, French, at Tali, 257

Ash-trees, Chinese dwarf, 51

Ass, wild, 165

Assyrian deities, 96

Âtman, Buddhist denial of, 67-68, 72

Avalanche, 93, 249

Awakening of China, 12 _seq._, 40-41, 387 _seq._

Baptist Mission in China, American, 114-115

"Basket" bridges, 113

Bears, 165

Bei-ze, 216-217

Bend in Yangtse, 237-238

Betel-nut, 313

"Black-bone" Lolos, 187

"Black Peril in Burma," xlvi.

Bo Tree, 354

Bodhisattvas, 57 _seq._, 72, 89-90, 91 _seq._, 105 _seq._

Bon _or_ Bon-pa religion, 281

Bridge, Kamsa, 317

----, Mekong, 296-297; Salwen, 305-308; Ta Tu, 125-126, xix.; Yellow River, 14-15

----, Single-rope, over Yalung, 191, _seq._

Bridges, 14-15, 110, 113, 114, 125-126, 128, 230, 243, 295, 296-297, 305-308, 310, 317

----, "Basket," 113

----, Suspension, 125-126, 128, 294, 305, 306, 307, 308, 310, xix.

British designs on Tibet, alleged, 135

---- frontier, arrival at, 315-319

Bronze elephant, 85-86, vi.

---- temple, 104, xii.

Bubonic plague, _see_ Plague

Buddha, the, 68 _seq._, 76, 88, 330, 353, _and chaps._ vi. _and_ vii. _passim_

Buddha's death, date of, xlii.

"Buddha's Glory," 59, 101-103, 111, x.

Buddhism, in Burma, 77, 329-330, 348-353; in China, 45-46, 54-81, 82-111, ii.-xii.; in India, xliii.; in Japan, 81, iv.; in Siam, 77

Bungalows, travellers', in Burma, 318-319, 320, 321

Burial customs, _see_ Dead, disposal of the

Burmese people, the, 8, 161, 275, 281, 302, 326 _seq._, 333 _seq._; artistic sense of, 326, 332, 335; characteristics of, 332-353; as labourers, 335, xlvi.; "laziness of," 336 _seq._; prosperity of, 335; religion of, 348-353; truthfulness of, 336

Burmese villages, 325-326

"Burning of the Books," 289

Butter, Tibetan, 156, 158, 159

Cairns, stone, 166

Canton-Kowloon Railway, 16

Cantonese, 199, 356-357, 365

Cat, wild, 165

Cave-temples, 35-36, 46

Caves, 174, 238

----, "Man-tzŭ," 45-50, 286

Certificates of pilgrims, 104-105

_Ch'an dzö_, 217

Charcoal-fires, 101, 123

Charms, 91, 190, 198-199

China, _see_ Index of Names

Chinese, art of, 378-379; Buddhism, _see_ Buddhism; characteristics of, 3, 12, 355 _seq._; civilisation, 366 _seq._, 371 _seq._; corruption of, 372 _seq._; court, arrogance of, 357, 365; courtesy of, 355-356; currency, 153-154; dislike of foreigners, 355, 358-359, 371, 383-384; emigrants, 357-358; emperor and empress-dowager, 13; hospitality of, 355 _seq._; in Hongkong, 358; inns, 32-33, 34, 51-53, 121; literature, 380-383; litigiousness of, 377; manners of, 355 _seq._; merchants, integrity of, 357; music, 379-380; not cowards, 384; oak, _see_ Oak; patriotism, 387-388; poetry, 381-382; pride of, 384; progress of, 12, 13, 16 _seq._, 40-41, 371; regiment, the 1st, xlvii.; Shan States, _see_ Shan States, etc.; sobriety of, 376-377; Tibet, 1, 126, 153 _seq._, _and passim_

_Ch'ing-k'o_, 173

Ch'orten (Lamaist pyramid or pagoda), 208-209

_Chou_, meaning of, 35

Christianity, in China, 78-81, _and see_ Missionaries

_Chün Liang Fu_, 131, 132-133

Civilisation, western, 5; limitations of, 338 _seq._, 365 _seq._

Climate of Ssuch'uan, 34, 124, 198-199, 315

---- of Yunnan, 252-253, 314-315

---- of Burma, 324

Coal in Ssuch'uan, 34, 123

Colossal image, 45-46

Commerce, _see_ Trade

Confucianism, 66, 67, 80-81

Cotton, 129

_Couvade_, 301

Cremation, 174, 224, 232

Crocodiles, 259

_Crossoptilon Tibetanum_, 156

Cuckoo, 203

Dacoits, 322

Dagobas, 209

Dalai Lama, the, 139, 215, 216

Dead, disposal of the, 174, 189, 224, 232-233, 238

Decay of Oriental art, 335

Deer, 165

Dhyâni Buddhas, 72, 73

Dogs, Tibetan, 162-163

Donations, religious, in China, 84, 85

Drowning accident on Yangtse, 21

_Drung_, 170

Duck, wild, 113

Dyeing industry, 35

Earthquakes, 132, 254

Eastern Heaven, 96-97

Eclecticism of Buddhism, 67

Education in China, 40-41, 119, 223-224, 371; in Burma, 350

Elephant in Buddhist mythology, 63 _seq._, 85-86, 94, 96, 97, 98

----, bronze, on Mount Omei, 85-86, vi.

Ethnology of western China, 1, 126, 265-292

Europeans in China, 17 _seq._, 78 _seq._, 355 _seq._

Extra-territorial jurisdiction in China, 78-79

"Fairies' Scarf," 178-179

Fauna of Tibetan Ssuch'uan, 164-165

_Fei tzŭ_, 84

_Felis fontanieri_, 165

Female rulers in Tibet and Shan States, 232, xxxvii.

Flora of western China and Chinese Tibet, 87, 163, 164, 180-181, 201, 204-205, 244, 248

Foot-binding in China, 371

Footprints of Buddha, 62

Foreign enterprise in China, _see_ Europeans in China

Forest fires, 178-179

Forests, 156, 163, 165, 171, 172 _seq._, 178 _seq._, 199, 202, 220, 226, 244

French artillery at Tali-fu, 257; railways in Yunnan, 25-26, 311-312; travellers in Yunnan, 227

Frontier of Ssuch'uan and Yunnan, 227; of Yunnan and Burma, 315-316, 317-318

_Fu_, 35, 229

Game, big, 164 _seq._

"Gate of Tibet," 154

Gélupa, _see_ Yellow Sect of Lamaism

Geographical interest of western China, 1-2

Gipsies, 166

Girls' school, 119

Glaciers, 155, 176, 202, 237, 244

"Glory of Buddha, The," 59, 101-103, 111, x.

Glow-worms, 245

Goat, wild, 165

"God of War," _see_ Kuan Ti (Index of Names)

"God of Wealth," _see_ T'sai Shên (Index of Names)

"God of Wisdom," _see_ Manjusri (Index of Names)

"Gods" in Buddhism, 70, iii.

"Goddess of Mercy," 73, 75, _and see_ Kuan Yin (Index of Names)

Goitre, 168

"Gold" as name of rivers, 195

Gold-dust, 130

Gold-mining, 238-239

Gold-washing, 128, 195-196, 218

"Golden Summit" of Mount Omei, 100, 105

"Golden-Teeth" country, 300

Gorges of the Yangtse, 28-29

Gossip at Tachienlu, 139 _seq._

Graves, _see_ Disposal of the dead

_Han-hua_, 273

Hand-stoves in Ssuch'uan, 34

Heights of Passes, xxiii.

Highest habitation on the globe, xxxvi.

Highwaymen, 37-38, 146-147, 181, 225, 235, 242

Holy water in Tibet, 143

Hospitality of Orientals, 8, 187, 333, 355 _seq._

Hot springs, 142, 254, 312

Hotels in China, _see_ Inns

_Hsien_, 35

_Hsüan fu shih ssŭ_, xxii.

_Hsüan wei shih ssŭ_, xxii.

_Huan-t'ieh_, 139

Idolatry in Europe and America, 342

Indian origin of tribes in West China, supposed, 268-269, 282 _seq._, 285 _seq._, xli.-xliv.

Indo Chinese peoples, 282 _seq._, 286-287, _and see chap._ xv. _passim_.

Inns in China, 32-33, 34, 51-53, 121

Insect-wax industry, _see_ White-wax industry

Irrigation of the Ch'êng-tu Plain, 39, 42, 43

Itinerary, _Appendix B_

Japanese Buddhism, 81, 90, iv.

---- landscape-painting, 378-379

---- navigation on the Yangtse, 20-23

---- poetry, 383

_K'an-po_ (Tibetan bishop or abbot), 215 _seq._

Karma (Kamma) in Buddhism, 68 _seq._

Kiang element in Tibetan population, 286

Kyaungs of Burma, 82

_La_ (mountain pass), 173

_Lab-ch'a_ (stone cairns), 166

Labour question in Burma, 336, xlvi.

Lamaism, 74, 90, 94, 130, 134, 138, 140 _seq._, 189, 190, 213 _seq._, 215, 219 _seq._, 228, 267, 281

Lamaseries, 130, 134, 168, 180, 202 _seq._, 219 _seq._

Landscape-painting in China, 378-379

Landslips, 124-125, 180, 207, 211, 249, 316

Language as a test of race, xxxv.

Laos Upper, or French, 6, 187, 314, 329, 331, 344-345, 349, _and see_ Shans

_Lapis-lazuli_, sacred, 96

Legends of Mount Omei, 54 _seq._

Lien Hua Shih, 91-92

"Living Buddhas," 215

Lo-han, _see_ Arahat

Lotus allegory, 59, 92-93

Lu-Han Railway, 10, 14-20

Machi (game-fowl), 156, 173

Mahayana, 63 _seq._, 76, v.

_Man-hua_, 273

Mani-dong, _see_ Obo

"Manners makyth man," 385

"Man-tzŭ" caves, 47 _seq._

Massacre in Tali, 262-263

Matins, Buddhist, 105-107

_Mig-ra_ (Tibetan eye-shade), 157

Military qualities of Orientals, xlvii.

_Ming Chêng Ssŭ_, 149

Missionaries, Christian, in China, 31, 33, 78-79, 110, 150

Mohammedan rebellion in Yunnan, 250, 257-264, xxxix.

Mohammedans in China, xxxix.

Monasteries and temples, 62 _seq._, 82 _seq._, 326, 332, vi.-xii.

Monastic life in China, 82 _seq._, _and see_ Lamaseries.

Monasticism, Chinese contempt for, 66-67

Money, _see_ Currency

Mongol conquests in Yunnan, 277-278

---- dynasty, 271-272

Monks, Chinese, ignorance of, 65 _seq._

Monolith in Ch'êng-tu, 41-42

Morrison, Dr G. E., 294, 307, 323

Mosquitoes, 242

Mountain-sickness, 165

Mules, death of, 155, 179-180

Mummies on Mount Omei, 98

Music in China, 379-380

Musk, 130, 247

Musk-deer, 165

Names of monasteries on Mount Omei, _chap._ vii.

Names of rivers in China, 44, 205-206

Nat-worship, 349 _seq._

Navigation on Irrawaddy, 325-328, 332

---- on Min, 43-45

---- on Yangtse, 20-30

Neo-Confucianism, 80-81

Nirvana, 69 _seq._, iv.

Noble Eightfold Path, 70

_Nyer-ba_, 217

O-mi-to-Fo, 73, 94

Oak (_Quercus sinensis_), 164, 220

Obo, 144-145, 174, 201, 211

Octagonal towers, 168 _seq._, 171, 175, 177

Official obstruction to travelling, 146-152

Officials of Muli, 216 _seq._

_Om mane padme hom_, 93-94, 130, 144-145

Opium, 24-25, 244-245, 254, 255, 258, 385

Ornaments, personal, 197-198, 228, 242

Pagodas, 44-45, 113, 254, 255, 258, 326, 330, 332, _and see_ Ch'orten _and_ Shwe Dagon pagoda.

Palace of Mandalay, 329

Panthers, 165, 241

Parrots, 181

Passes (mountain), 1, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121-122, 155, 156 _seq._, 165 _seq._, 173, 175, 176, 179, 180, 225-256, 235, 241, 243, 304, 309, xxiii.

Peaches, 125

_Pên-ti-jên_, 239, 290

Perpetual snow, _see_ Snow-line

Pewter staff of Buddhists, 99-100

Pheasants, 142, 156, 220, 241, 309

Photographs, destruction of, by water, 314

Pictorial art in China, 378-379

Pigeons, 157

Pigs, 171

Pilgrims in China, 53, 59, 83, 85, 86, 94, 100, 104, 122, 127

Pine-forests, _see_ Forests

Plague, 198-199, xxxix.

Poetry of China, 381-382

Police, absence of, in China, 375

Polyandry, 230-232

Polygamy, 231

Ponies, 171, 321

Poplars, 164

Poppy, _see_ Opium

Porcelain, Chinese, 378

Prayer-flags, 130, 142-143, 174, 211

Prayer-wheels, 94, 142-144, 211

Prejudices, national, 359 _seq._

Prickly pear, 255

Primroses, 164, 180, 248

Proverbs, Chinese, 36, 101, 104

Railways in China, 10, 14 _seq._, 39-40, 310-312, 369

Rain, 240-241, 297-298, 308-309, 316, 324, 331

Rainbow in Salwen valley, 308-309

Rainy season in Yunnan, 293, 297-298

---- ---- in Shan States, 331

Rape-flower, 38, 112

Rapids on the Yangtse, 25 _seq._

Rebellion in Yunnan, _see_ Mohammedan Rebellion

Recluses and hermits, 55 _seq._

Red sandstone basin of Ssuch'uan, 46, 250

Red-boats on the Yangtse, 27-28

"Refuges, The Three," 73

Religion, _see_ Buddhism, Christianity, _etc._

Revenue of Muli, 218

Rhododendrons, 163, 175

Rice, 230, 254

Rivers, names of, 44, 205-206

Road, a good Chinese, 244-245; British-made, in Chinese Shan States, 315

Roads in Upper Burma, 316-317, 320

Robbers, 37-38, 146-147, 181, 225, 235, 242

Rope-bridge, 191 _seq._

Roses, wild, 244, 248, 254-255

Rupee, Chinese, 153-154

Saddle, Tibetan, 320

_San Kuei_ ("Three Refuges"), 73

Sao-p'a, _see_ Sawbwa

Sawbwa (Shan chief), 315, 331

Scenery of China, Chinese Tibet, Burma, etc., 2-3, 15, 44, 123-124, 133, 156, 163, 172, 174, 177, 182 _seq._, 206-207, 209-211, 255, 317, 318, 325-326, 327-328

Scholarship, lack of, among Chinese Buddhists, 65 _seq._

Schools, _see_ Education

Schrader's theory of Nirvana, iv.

Science, triumphs of, in Europe, 368-369

Second defile, 327, 328

Sericulture, 35, 41, 45

Shanghai-Wusung railway, 17

Shans, _see_ Index of Names

Siege of Tali, 257, 258-264, xxxix.

Silk-weaving, 41, _and see_ Sericulture

Smoking prohibited at Muli, 221

Snow-line, 163-164, 175

Soul, Buddhist denial of, 67-68, 72

Sport, 113, 142, 164-165, 220, 241, 309

Squirrels, 181

Stags, 165

Steam navigation on Irrawaddy, 325-328, 332

---- on Yangtse, 20 _seq._, 25-26

Sulphur springs, 142

Sung dynasty, 271, 272; artists of, 378-379

Sunshine in Ssuch'uan rare, 101

Suspension-bridges, _see_ Bridges

Taoism, 67, 78, 99

Tatooing, 302

Taxation in Muli, 218, xxxiv.

---- in China, 374

Tea, 114, 129, 156, 158-159

Tea-carriers, 114, 117

Teeth of Buddha, alleged, 62, 86, vii.

Temples and monasteries, 42, 45-46, 62 _seq._, 82 _seq._, 122, 128, 299, 308

"Three Refuges, The," 73

Thunder-dragon, 61

Tibetan charms, 91, 190, 198-199

---- coinage, 153-154

---- dogs, 162-163

---- frontier, 39, 116, 125-126

---- houses, 157 _seq._, 170

---- inns, 130, 131

---- saddle, 320

---- tea, 158-159

---- women, 160 _seq._, 205

Tibetans, _see_ Index of Names

Tobacco, 129

Tolerance of Chinese, religious, 79-80

Tombs, "Royal," near Tachienlu, 142

Tooth-relics of the Buddha, 62, 86, vii.

Towers, octagonal, 168 _seq._, 171, 175, 177

Trade between China and Burma, 254, 300, 310-312, 315, 317, 322

---- between China and Tibet, 129-130, xxi.

_Tra-pa_ (Lamaist novices), 217, 221, 225

Trackers on the Yangtse, 28-30

Transliteration of Chinese names, 44

Trees, famous, of Mount Omei, 61 _seq._

Tribal chiefs subject to China, 128, 132 _seq._, 213 _seq._, 229, xxii., xxviii., xxxiv., xxxvii., _and see_ Tachienlu, Muli, Yung-ning, Li-chiang, _etc._, in Index of Names

_Tsamba_, 83, 156, 158, 159, 172, 173

_T'u Ch'ien Hu_, xix., xxii.

_T'u Pai Hu_, 172, 176, 190, xix., xxii., xxviii.

Typhus fever, 132

Ula, 136-137, 139, 152, 160, 173, 174, 186, 225

Umbrellas, European, in Burma, 327

Unhealthiness of valleys in western China, 198-199, 236, 248, 304-309, 314

_Usnea barbata_, 178-179

"Valley of the Shadow of Death," 304-309

Vegetarian diet, 83, 100, 221, 337

Vespers, Buddhist, 107-108

Village communities of China, 376 _seq._

Vocabularies, _Appendix A_

Vulgarity, absence of, in Burma, 345 _seq._

Warfare on Tibetan border, 119-120, 133 _seq._, 150-152, 154

Water-buffalo, 201, 230

Waterfall, 317

Wats of Siam, 82

Western civilisation, limitations of, 338 _seq._, 347 _seq._

White wax industry, 45, 51, 112

Wild duck, 113

---- flowers, _see_ Flora

"Will to live" in Buddhism, 68

Women of western China, 160 _seq._, 205, 228, 251, 258

Wood-carving in Burma, 326

Yellow Lamas, Land of the, _see_ Muli

"Yellow Peril, The," xlvi., xlviii.

Yellow robe of Burmese Buddhist, 349, 350

Yellow Sect of Lamaism, 214, 219

Yuan dynasty, 271-272

Yunnan, 227-317; climate of, 252-253, 297-298, 307; foreign trade in, 254, 310-312; frontiers of, 227, 317; language of, 290-291, 302; Mohammedan rebellion in, 250, 257-264, xxxix.; railways in, 25-26, 310-312; tribes of, 265-292

INDEX OF NAMES

_The references in Roman numerals are to the Notes_

A-gu Wa, 228

A-jol, 249, _and see_ Atuntzŭ

A-ko Am-ni Wa, 228

A-mi-chi-ts'a, 171

A Te, 156

Adam's Peak, 101

Africa, South, Chinese miners in, 357-358

Ajangs _or_ A-ch'angs, 279

Akchôbhya Buddha, 97

Amitabha Buddha, 73, 74, 78, 94, 96, 98, 99, 102, 107

Amundsen, E., 147, 191, 239, xxvi., xxxii.

An-hui Province, 97

Angkor Wat, archæological work at, xlv.

Anuradhapura, 209, 354

Ashi, 280

Ashi Ferry, 249, 280

Asoka, 285, 289, xlii., _and see_ Maurya

Atuntzŭ, 241, 246, 249

Avalokiteçvara, 73; _see also_ Kuan Yin

"Azure Hills" of Tali, 261, 264

Ba Lu, 170

Ba Tsam Ch'u, 206, _and see_ Dja Ch'u

Baber, E. Colborne, 41, 85-86, 146, 169, 196, 213, 231, 291, 296, 304, 306-307, vi.

Bamian, caves at, 49

Bangkok, 6

Batang, 126, 154

Bhamo, 199, 282, 312, 315, 320, 321, 322-326

Bhamo to Mandalay, 322-363

Bhamo-T'êng-yüeh railway, 17, 310-312

Binyon, Mr Laurence, _quoted_, 378-379

Bishop, Mrs, 34

"Black-bone" Lolos, 187

Blake, Sir Henry A., G.C.M.G., 354

Böd, 268-269, _and see_ Tibetans, _etc._

Bodhidarma, 65, 78, 98, ii.

Bonin, M., 147, 238, 273, 274, xxvi., xxxvi.

Bourne, Mr F. S. A., 276

Brahmaputra, xxx.

Buddha, _see_ General Index

Burma, 9, 86, 223, 266, 282, 287, 302, 317-353; annexation of, 322, 329; climate of, 324-325; labour question in, 336, xlvi.; people of, 326-353, xli.; religion of, 348-353

California, Chinese in, 357

Canton, 90

Canton-Kowloon railway, 16

Cantonese, 199, 356-357, 365

Carajan, 259, 300

Cathay, 116, 271

Ceylon, 354; polyandry in, 231

Chala, kingdom and king of, 131 _seq._, 186, xxii., _and see_ Tachienlu

Chandragupta Maurya, 284, xlii., _and see_ Maurya

Chang Chih-tung, 18-19

Chang Liang, 95, 97

Ch'ang Lao P'ing, 88

Ch'ang Ying, 255

Chê-chiang (Chekiang) Province, 271

Chê Ri La, 155-156

Chê To, 154-155, 157

Ch'ên Hsiang T'a, 98

Chêng-chou, 25

Chêng Ting Chin Tien, 100

Ch'êng-tu, 26, 30, 36-42, 114, 116, 287, 375; Mint, 154

Chêng-tu to Omei-hsien, 43 _seq._

Ch'i T'ien Ch'iao, 98

Chia I Chai, "king" of Tachienlu, 136 _seq._

Chia-chiang, 112, 113

Chia-ling river, 35

Chiang K'ou, 43

Chia-ting-fu, 26, 43, 45-50, 124, 127

Chieh Yin Tien, 96

Chien-ch'ang valley, 51, 116, 146, 148, 187, 246, 268, 311

Chien-ch'uan-chou, 251-252

Chien Wên (Ming emperor), 290

Ch'ien Fo, 109

Ch'ien Sui Ho-shang, 57

Chih-kuo-chên, 113

Chihli, Province of, 14

Chin Ch'uan, 128, xviii., xix., xxii.

Chin Ho, 44, 195 _seq._, xxix., xxx., _and see_ Yangtse _and_ Yalung

Chin Sha Chiang, 44, 195-197, xxx., _and see_ Yangtse

Chin Tartars, 271

Chin-wang-tao, 10

China, awakening of, 12 _seq._, 40-41,387 _seq._; Buddhism in, _see_ Buddhism; Christianity in, 78, 81, _and see_ Missionaries; consular jurisdiction in, 78-79; future greatness of, 387-388; reaction in, 371; social organisation of, 375; taxation of, 374

---- Inland Mission, 31

Chinan-fu, 8

_China's Only Hope_, 19

_Ch'ing-ch'i-hsien_, 118-120, 126, xv.

Ch'ing Lien river, 295

Chou Kung Shan, 115, i.

Chu-ko Liang, 117, i., xiv., xviii., xx.

Chu Ma-tien, 15

Chung-chia-tzŭ, 276, 292

Chung Fêng Ssŭ, 110, xii.

Chung-king, 25, 33, 35

Chung Ku, 175

Chung So, 256

Chung-tien, 228, 249, 280

Ch'ü Fou, 8

Ch'ü-hsien, 35

Ch'ü river, 35

Clementi, Mr C., 382

Colombo, 354

Confucius, 8, 271, i.

Cooper's _Travels_, 162

Davids, Dr Rhys, 72, 143, 284, 286, iv., xliii.

Davies, Major H. R., 147, 202, 223, 238, 312, xxiii., xxvi., xxxii.

De Quincey _quoted_, xlviii.

Derge, 232

Dja Ch'u, 202, 203, 204, 209-211, 219-220

Dja Ki Ch'u, 168, 170-171

Dje Ru, 205

Dji Dju La, 175-176

Dji Dju Rong, 176

Djiung, 279, 280, 281, _and see_ Lashi

Djo-Dji, 227

Dju Mu, 197

Do river, 127

Dra Shê, 174

Dravidians, xli.

Dro Dze Drung, 174

Du Sz Drung, 168

Dur, 176

Dza Ri K'u, 168

Eagle-wood Pagoda, 98

Eitel, E. J., 73, 92

"Elephant's Bath," 94

England and Tibet, 135

Ênu-rêstū (Assyrian deity), 96

Erh Hai (Lake of Tali), 256-257

Fang Ma Ch'ang, 304

Fei Lung Ling, 116

Fei Yüeh Ling, 121-122, xvii.

Fêng Hsiang gorge, 30

Fêng K'o, 239-240, 241

Fêng Ming Shih Ch'iao, 295

Fêng Ting Wo Yün An, 109

Flying Dragon Pass, 116

Forrest, Mr, adventures of, 150, 247

Fox, Mr H. H., 27

Fu Chuang, 120

Fu Hsi, 55

"Gate of Tibet," 154

Ge Wa Pass, 235-236

Gélupa, _see_ Yellow Sect of Lamaism

Gi Dji, 237

Gill, Captain, 169, 192, 294, 296

"Glory of Buddha," 59, 101-103, 111, x.

Go Ka A, 241

Gods of War, Wealth, Wisdom, _see_ Kuan Ti, Ts'ai Shên, Manjusri

Goddess of Mercy, 73, 75, _and see_ Kuan Yin

_Golden Bough, The_, 166

Golden Dragon Monastery, 85

---- Hall of the True Summit, 100 _seq._, 108

---- Summit, the, 100, 105

Golden-Teeth Country, the, 300

Great Elephant Pass, 117-118, 288, xiv.

---- River, the, _see_ Yangtse river

---- Snow Mountains, 102

---- Vehicle Monastery, 95, ix.

Gur Dja, 179

Hai Wei, 252

Hai Yin Ssŭ, 45-46

Hall, Mr Fielding, 335-336, 337

Han river, 15, 16

Han-Yang, 15

Hang-chow, 271

Hankow, 10, 14, 15-16, 20

Hao Shou bridge, 253

Hao Tzŭ P'u, 303

Hearn, Lafcadio, _quoted_, 383, xlviii.

"Heavenly Sage, The," 55

Hei Lao, 176

Hlan Go La, 177, 179

Hmêng _and_ Hmung, _see_ Miao-tzŭ

Ho Chiang-p'u, 294

Ho-chou, 35

Holcombe, Mr Chester, _quoted_, 17, 365

"Holy Lamps, The," 108, xi.

Honan, Province of, 14, 15

Hongkong, 354, 358, 359; climate of, 324-325; latitude of, 325

Hosie, Sir Alexander, 51, 87, 116, 125, 128, 146, 213

Hsi Fan, 126, 268-269, 276, xxxiv.

Hsi Hsiang Ch'ih, 94

Hsi Hsin So, 88

Hsi-paw, Sawbwa of, 331

Hsi Shan, 35-36

Hsi T'ien (Western Heaven), _see_ Sukhâvatî

Hsi Wa Tien, 99

Hsia Ch'êng-tzŭ, 174

Hsia Kuan, 257, 294

Hsiang Po, 309

Hsiao Hsin Kai, 313-314

Hsiao Hua Ch'iao, 295

Hsiao T'ien Pa, 295

Hsien Tsu Tien, 58, 109, xii.

Hsin Yi La, 181

Hsiung-nu, 49, 279

Hsü-chou-fu, 25, 26, 44, 45

Hu Dra, 203

Hu Mu Shu, 309

Hua-lin-p'ing, 122-123, xvii.

Hua Yen Ssŭ, vi.

Hua Yen Ting, 91

Huang Jên, 55

Huang Lama, 147 _seq._, 186, 213 _seq._

Huang-lien-p'u, 295

Huang-ni-p'u, 117

Huang Ti ("Yellow Emperor"), 55

Huc, Abbé, 49, 108, 145, 192

Hui Ch'ih, 61

Hui-li-chou, 311

Hui Têng Ssŭ, 110

Hui Ti, _see_ Chien Wên

Hung Wu (Ming emperor), 290

Hung Ya, 113

Huo Yen Shan, 254

Hupeh, Province of, 14, 15, 30

Huxley, T. H., _quoted_, 369, iv., xlviii.

I T'ou, 121

Ichang, 10, 20, 23-27, 30

Ichang to Wan-hsien, 24-30

Irrawaddy Flotilla Co., 325

Irrawaddy river, 282, 312, 324 _seq._, 327-328, 332

Japan, 355, 367-368

_Jātakas_, 285

Jê Shui T'ang, 312

"Jim," 27, 33, 34, 117, 159, 194, 299, 355

Jung (Barbarians), 270, 279

Jung An Ch'iao, 35

Jung-Ching, 117

Kachins, 282, 300, 313, 320, 323

K'ai Chi, 230

K'ai-fêng-fu, 375

K'ai Shan Ch'u Tien, 89, viii.

Kamsa bridge, 317

Kan-lan-chan, 310

Kandy, Buddha's Tooth at, vii.

Kau Ngai, 313

Ke-lao, 276

Khams (Kham), 161

Khon, 216, 218, xxxii.

Kiangsi, 8

Kiaochou, 8

Kidd, Mr Benjamin, 367

Kin Ho, 195 _seq._, _and see_ Yalung river

Kinsay, _see_ Hang-chow

Ko Ri Drung, 175

"Kohn's," 321

Kolarians, xli.

Koloman, 276

Korat, 6

Korea, 8, 90, 355

Kosala, kingdom of, 284 _seq._

Kowloon-Canton railway, 16, 17

Ku-Dze, 211

Ku Hung-Ming, 378

Ku T'ai Tzŭ P'ing, 97

Ku-tsung, 246, 274, 276

Kuan Hsia, 250

Kuan-hsien, 39, 42

Kuan Hsin Ting, 88

Kuan P'o, 298

Kuan Ti ("God of War"), 99, 108, 119

Kuan Yin ("Goddess of Mercy"), 73, 75, 78, 93-94, 95, 107, 122, 128

Kuan Yin Ch'iao, 114

Kuan Yin Ssŭ, 110

Kuang-an, 35

Kuang Fu Ssŭ, 110

Kuang Hsiang Ssŭ, _see_ Hsien Tsu Tien

Kuangsi, 8

Kuangtung, 8, 356-357

Kúblái Khan, 272, 278

K'uei-chou-fu, 39

Kulika, 317

Kulong-ka, 320

K'ung, Duke, 8

Kunlon Ferry, 248, 293, 311, 331

Kuo Ta Shan, xxi.

Kutho-daw, 329-330

Kyūshū, 355

La'hu, 281, 282, 292

La Ka Shi, 236

Lacouperie, Terrien de, 276, 283

Lan Ga Lo, 236

Lan Yi Pa, 181

Lan Ts'ang Chiang; _see_ Mekong river

Laos, Upper, _or_ French, 6, 187, 314, 328, 331, 344-346, 349, _and see_ Shans

Lashi, 246, 279, 280, _and see_ Mo-so

Lashi-Pa, 249, 280

Lashio, 248, 280, 293, 311, 331

_Lee-chuen_ steamer, 25

Leesaw, _see_ Li-so

Lei Tung P'ing, 95-96

Lêng Chi, 124

Lêng Shui Ching, 304

Lha-k'ang, 216

Lhasa, 108, 114, 122, 126, 127, 145, 161, 164, 191, 192, 221-222, 267

Li-chiang, 157, 237, 239, 241, 242, 244, 245-247, 248, 277, 278, 280, 311, xxxviii.

Li-chiang to Tali-fu, 248-264

Li Ch'u, 172, _and see_ Litang river _and_ Dja Ch'u

Li Hua Nan, vi.

Li Ping, 42

Li She Tzŭ, 226

Li-so, 230, 239, 246, 274, 277, 281-282, 292

Liang-shan, 34

Licchavis, 49, 284 _seq._, xli. _and_ xliii.

Litang, 105, 120, 151, 154; river, 202 _seq._, _and see_ Dja Ch'u

Little, Mr A., 25, 28, vi.

Liu Sha river, 120, 121, xvi.

Lolos, 102, 120, 146, 186-190, 223, 235, 246 _seq._, 273, 276, 277, 279, 282, 292

Lu-Han railway, 10, 14-20

Lu Li, 173

Lu river, 127, 128, 129

Lu Ting, 124-126, 151, xix.

Lu Tzŭ Chiang, 305 _seq_., _and see_ Salwen river

Luang Prabang, 6, 328

Lung Chang Kai, 314

Lung river, _see_ Shweli river

Lung Shêng Kang, 110

Lung Shu, _see_ Nāgārjuna

Lung Wang (Naga-raja), 99

Madrasis in Burma, 333, 336

Maeterlinck, Maurice, _quoted_, 348

Magadha, Empire of, 284 _seq._

Mahā Myatmuni (Arakan Pagoda), 331

Mahâsthâma, 73, _and see_ Ta Shih Chih

Mahayana, _see_ General Index

Maitrêya Buddha, 45-46, 95, 106

Man-chia, 268 _seq._, 273

Man-hsien, 315, 317

Mandalay, 86, 108, 288, 311, 324, 327, 328-332

Manjusri, 77, 91, 94, 95, 97, 99, 106

Man-tzŭ, 20, 126, 197, 222-223, 268 _seq._, 283

Manu, Laws of, 231

_Manzi_, 271, _and see_ Man-tzŭ

Mao Niu Kuo, xx.

Martineau, James, _quoted_, 359

Maudgalyâyana, 73

Maurya race and kings, 282 _seq._, xli., xlii.

Maymyo, 331

Mekong river, 6, 241, 246, 293, 296-297, 298, 319, 328, 345

Mencius, 270, 271

"Middle Kingdom, The," 389

Mien, _see_ Burma

Mien-ning-hsien, 238

Min-chia, 246, 251, 289-292

Mindon Min, 329, 330

Min river, 26-27, 33, 38-39, 43 _seq._, 124, 196-197, 319

Min Shan, 44

_Ming Cheng Ssŭ_, 149, xxii.

Ming Yin Chi, 242

Mo-so, 222, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 238, 239, 241, 245, 246, 250, 274, 277 _seq._, 281, xxxiv.

Momauk, 320

Môn races, 277

Mong-kung-ka, 318-319

Mongols, 271-272, 277-278

Mount Omei, 43, 50, 53, 54-81, 82-111, 117, 124, 127, 159, i.-xii.

Moyes, Mr and Mrs, 129, 150

Muang Wa, 328

Muh-sö, 279, 282

Muli, 2, 168, 202, 211, 212, 213-225, 234, 238, 281, xxvi., xxxi., xxxiv.

Muli _to_ Yung-ning, 213-230

Mung, _see_ Miao-tzŭ

Müller, Max, 75, 330

Murghab, caves on, 49

Myitkyina, 280

Na K'i, 174

Nāgārjuna, 76, 91

Nai Yu La, 177

Nam T'ing (T'ing river), 293

Nam U (U river), 328, 345

Nan Chao, 278, 287

Nan Tien, 313

Nanking, 282, 290, 291

Nashi, _see_ Lashi

Ni T'ou, 121

Ning-yüan, 146, 217, 238, 311

Niu Chio Kuan, 298

Niu Kai, 253-254

Njong, 222 _seq._, 281

Nü Wo, 55

Nya Ch'u, _see_ Yalung river.

Nya Rong ("Valley of the Nya"), 195, xxix., _and see_ Yalung river

O-mi-to-Fo (Amitabha Buddha), 73, 94

O'Connor, Mr Scott, 344

Odoric, Friar, 224

Omei-hsien, 50-53

Omei-hsien _to_ Tachienlu, 112-130

Omei-shan, _see_ Mount Omei

Orleans, Prince Henry of, 282, 292

Ottewell, Mr, 310

Pa-Chi, 223

Pa I (Shan tribesmen), 306, 308

Pa-No, 223

Pa Sung, 200, 201

Pa-U-Rong, 168, 181 _seq._, xxviii., xxix.

Pa-U-Rong _to_ Muli, 186-212

Pagan, 332, xlv.

Pai Sha river, 255-256

Pai Shui Ho, 237

Pai Yün Ku Ch'a, 95

Pan Ch'iao, 299

Pao Chang, 57

Pao-ning Ssŭ, 85

Paradise of the West, 72-73, _and see_ Sukhâvatî

Parker, Prof. E. H., 266-267, 272

Pataliputra (Patna), 285

Patisambhidâ, 89

Peguans, 277

Pei T'ai, 180

Peking, 10-13, 114, 375; to Hankow railway, 14-20; to Kalgan railway, 17; to Ichang, 10 _seq._

_Pên-ti-jên_, 239, 290

P'êng-shan, 44

Perronne, M. Gaston, 247, 248

Persia, 48-49, 166

P'ing P'o, 297

P'ing-shan, 26

P'o Chiao, 250

Polo, Marco, 38-39, 90, 116, 131, 146, 161-162, 224, 271, 294, 300, 301, 302, 307, vii.

Pu-tai K'ou, 30

Pu Ti La, 180

P'u Hsien Bodhisattva, 57 _seq._, 77, 86, 88, 91, 94 _seq._, 106, 109, 117

P'u Kuang Tien, _see_ Hsien Tsu Tien

P'u Kung, 57, viii., xii.

P'u Piao, 304

P'u T'o, 122

P'un Bu Shi, 170-171

Raineh, Persia, cave-dwellings in, 48-49

Rangoon, 86, 108, 333 _seq._, 354

Red River, 6, 198-199

_Ri_, 173

Ri Go La, 179-180

Ri Wa, 169, 174

Ring I Drung, 168, 170

River of Golden Sand, 44, _and see_ Yangtse river

Robertson, Mr D. G., 331

Rocher, M. Émile, _quoted_, 199, 260-263, xxxix.

Rockhill, Mr W. W., 121-122, 125, 136, 208, 224, xxxvii., xliii.

_Rong_, 173

Rong Ch'u, 219, 225

Ruskin, John, 3, 30, 182-183, 204-205, 340, 342

Ryder, Major, 238, 312

Sa-Mong, 232

Sa-T'am, 280, _and see_ Li-chiang

Sakya Clan, xliii.

Sakyamuni Buddha, 68 _seq._, 73, 76, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 105, 109

Salwen river, 199, 248, 293, 298, 304-309, 319, 331

Samanta Bhadra, _see_ P'u Hsien Bodhisattva

San Chia-tzŭ, 174

San Kuan, 99

San Shêng Kung, 295

San T'ieh Fo Tien, vi.

San Ying, 254

Scott, Sir George, 265, 348 _seq._

Second Defile, 327, 328

Seres, 288-289, xliv.

Sha P'ing, 257

Sha-shih, 23

Sha Yang, 295

Shang Kuan, 257, 258

Shang La Shih, 250

Shanghai, 355, 358

Shanghai-Wusung railway, 17

Shan States, 6, 231-232, 272, 275, 287, 313, 331, _and see_ Shans

Shans, 6, 8, 187, 248, 266, 280, 282, 292, 300, 302, 313, 314, 315, 318, 349, 355, 356, xxxvii.

Shantung, 8, 356

Shelley, _quoted_, 110

Shi Li La, 226

Shih-chia Ch'iao, 116

Shih K'o Ts'un, 299

Sho Ti Ba Dze, 173

_Shu Ching_, 270

Shui Chai, 297, 298

Shun, Emperor, 8

Shun-ch'ing-fu, 35

Shun-tê-fu, 14

Shwe Dagon Pagoda, 86, 352-353

Shweli river, 310, 319

Si Dji, 236

Si Fan, _see_ Hsi Fan

Siam, 6, 8, 223, 276, 314, 344, 356

Siddharta, Prince (the Buddha), _see_ Sakyamuni Buddha

"Silvery Boundary, The," 103

Sin Go La, 177

_Sinae_, 282 _seq._

Sindafu, 38-39, _and see_ Ch'êng-tu

Singapore, 354

_Smaller Sukhâvatî Vyûha Sutra_, 74-75

So Chiang T'a, 44-45

Spencer, Herbert, 231-232

Ssuch'uan, 1, 9, 25, 30, 32 _seq._, 39, _and passim_

Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 272

Ssumao, 6

Stirling, Mr G. C. B., 282, 331

Straits Settlements, Chinese in, 357

Sui-fu, 25, _and see_ Hsü-chou-fu

"Suicide's Cliff," 103-104

Sukhâvatî (Western Heaven), 72-73, 77, 78, 94, 95

Sung dynasty, 271, 272; artists of, 378

Swami Vivekananda, the, 366

Ta-chien-lu, _see_ Tachienlu

Ta Chu, 34

Ta Hsiang Ling, 117, 118, 119, 288, xiv.

Ta Hsüeh Shan, 102-104

Ta Hua Ch'iao, 295

Ta Kiang, _see_ Yangtse

Ta Liang Shan, 187, xxvii.

Ta K'oa, 204

Tali-fu, 100, 153, 154, 246, 248, 257-264, 265, 278, xxxix.; lake of, 256-259; massacre in, 262-263; siege of, 257, 259-264, xxxix.

Tali-fu _to_ Bhamo, 199, 293 _seq._

Ta-Mo, _see_ Bodhidarma

Ta O Monastery, 110, xii.

Ta Pan Ching, 304-305, 307

Ta P'êng Pa, 126-127

Ta Shih Chih, 73, 95, 97, 107

Ta Tu river, 45, 102, 124, 126, 127, 128, 132, 195, 268, 319, xviii., xix.

Tachienlu, 1, 114, 115, 117, 123, 126, 128, 129-152, 153, 154, 191, 214, 234, 266, xx.-xxii.

Tachienlu _to_ Pa-U-Rong, 153-185

T'ai peoples, 275, 276, 283, _and see_ Shans

T'ai P'ing, 309

T'ai P'ing Rebellion, xxxix.

T'ai P'ing river, 316, 318

T'ai P'ing Ch'iao, 296

T'ai-p'ing-p'u, 294

T'ai Shan, 8, 103

Talaings, 277

Tan Ga La, 173

Tê Ben, 199

Tê Yüan bridge, 256

Ten Ba K'a, 201

Têng-ch'uan-chou, 256-257

Tennyson, _quoted_, 54

T'êng-yüeh, 235, 294, 298, 302, 310-312, 313, 320

T'êng-yüeh-Bhamo railway, 17, 310-312

Thai peoples, _see_ T'ai

Thibaw, King, 322, 329

Thinae, 282

Thunder Cavern, 61, 95-96

Ti (Barbarians), 270

Ti Tsang Bodhisattva, 91, 96-97, 107

Tibet, _see_ Tibetans, etc.

Tibet, meaning of word, 268-269

Tibetans, 8, 39, 50, 94, 116, 119, 125, 126, 129 _seq._, 153 _seq._, 196, 197, 222, 246, 267 _seq._, 311, _and see_ General Index

Tien, kingdom of, 272, 283, 287

Tien Wei, 252

Tientsin, 10

T'ien Chên Huang Jên, 55

T'o K'o Sho, 241

Toloman, 276

Tongking, 6, 8, 26, 198-199

Tsa Ch'u, 172

Ts'ai Shên ("God of Wealth"), 99, 106

Tsang po, _see_ Brahmaputra

Ts'ao Pa, 114

Tu, 173

Tu Wên-hsiu, 259-262, xxxix.

T'u Fan, 268

T'ung river, _see_ Ta Tu

Turfan, 269

Tylor, E. B., 301

Tyndall, John, _quoted_, 183

Upper Laos, 6, 328, 345-346

---- Lashi, 250

Uriangkadai, 278

Vaggians, 49, 284 _seq._, xli.

Vairocana, Celestial Buddha, 64

Vesâli, 285-286, xliii.

Vial, Paul, _quoted_, 187, 274, 275, 276, 277, 280, 290

Vien-chan, 6

Virgil, _quoted_, 69, 303

Vivekananda, the Swami, 366

Vochan, _see_ Yung-ch'ang

Wa Mountain, 102

Wa-chin Gompa, 204, 216

Wa Ssŭ Kou, 127-128, 151, 195

Waddell, Colonel, 126, 139, 208-209, 215

Wan-hsien, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32

Wan-hsien _to_ Chêng-tu, 31-42

Wan-nien Ssŭ, 85-88, 109, vi., vii.

Warry, Mr, _quoted_, 276

Wealth, Chinese god of, _see_ Ts'ai Shên

Wei Chên T'ien Mên, 98

Wei-Si (Wei-hsi), 311

Wei To, 96, 106, 107

Weihaiwei, 10, 319, 355, 356, 374, 376-377

Wên Ch'êng, 95, 97

Western Paradise, _see_ Sukhâvatî

White, Sir Herbert, 331

"White-bone" Lolos, 186-187

White Clouds Monastery, 95

---- Dragon Monastery, 85

White Dragon Pool, 109

Wo La, 223

Wo Pu Tsong, 206; _see_ Dja Ch'u

Wo Shih Wo ("Sleeping Lion's Den"), 303

Wordsworth, _quoted_, 251

Wu, 206-207

Wu-ch'ang, 15

Wu Chia-tzŭ, 174

Wu Shu, 177

Wu Shu La, 176

Wu T'ai Shan, 217

Ya River, 45, 50, 112, 113, 114, 116, 124, 319

Ya-chou, 112, 114-116, 117, xiii.

"Yaks, The Land of," xx., _and see_ Tachienlu

Yalung river and watershed, 146, 147 _seq._, 159 _seq._, 164, 168, 170, 180, 181, 191 _seq._, 238, 267, 319, xxiii.-xxvi., xxviii.-xxxi., xxxvi.

Yamdok lake, caves of, 49

Yang Pi, 294

Yangtse river, 10, 15, 20 _seq._, 24 _seq._, 28-30, 43-44, 45, 195-197, 228, 231, 232, 236-238, 245, 249, 319, xxix., xxx.

"Yellow Emperor, The," 55

Yellow Lamas, Land of the, _see_ Muli

---- River, 14, 271, 319

---- Sect of Lamaism, 214, 219

Yen-yüan, 217

Yi Ma Wa, 228

Yin Cho, 179

Ying-shan-p'u, 255

Yo Shih Fo, 96-97, 106, 107

Yule, Colonel, 276

Yung-ch'ang, 294, 298, 299-303

Yung-ch'ing Ssŭ, 97

Yung Pei, 228, 229, 246

Yung P'ing, 295

Yung-ning, 147, 154, 168, 225, 226, 227, 228-230, 234, 235, 237, 239, 240, 277, 280, 281

Yunnan, 6, 9, 146, 168, 187, 225, 227-317, _and see_ General Index

Yunnan-fu, 116, 246, 311

Yü, the Emperor, 270, i.

Yü Lin Kung, 142

Yüan Tzŭ Jang, x., xi.

Yüeh-chi, _see_ Yüeh-ti

Yüeh-hsi, 146

Yüeh-ti, _or_ Lunar Race, 49, 286

Yün-chou, 293

Zardandan, 300, 302

Zend-Avesta, 224

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation are as in the original.

Recto pages of the original are headed by a brief description of the topic. These have been retained as sidenotes and inserted at appropriate breaks in the text.

In APPENDIX A: VOCABULARY, the original tables were eight columns wide. Each table has been split into two four column tables, with the English repeated in the second part.

Italics are represented thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold=.

The following errors in Chinese characters have been corrected: "秦" in footnote 340 was rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise.

On page 416, "旋" was printed upside-down, and "奇" was rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

On p. 422, "記" was printed upside-down.

The following phrases include characters that are not available. The characters have been replaced by □ 唵嚤呢叭□吽 footnote 68. 摩□ footnote 312. 力□ footnote 322. 坡□ Itinerary, May 18th.

The Tibetan for om mane padme hom in footnote 69 has been corrected.

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