CHAPTER IX

VOYAGING TO YÜN-NAN

Outfitting in Hongkong--Food--Guns--Cameras--_En route_ to Tonking--The
Island of Hainan--We engage a cook at Paik-hoi--Arrival in Haiphong--Loss
of our Ammunition--Hanoi--The railroad to Yün-nan Fu--Yün-nan--The Chinese
Foreign Office endorses our plans

CHAPTER X

ON THE ROAD TO TA-LI FU

Our caravan--The Yün-nan pack saddle--Temple camps--Chinese
_mafus_--Roads--Country--Ignorance of a Chinese scholar--New
mammals--Village life--Opium growing--An opium scandal--Goitre--The
Chinese "Mountain schooner"--Horses--Miss Morgan--Brigands--Our guard
of soldiers

CHAPTER XI

TA-LI FU

Hsia-kuan--Summer temperature--Lake--Graves--Pagodas--Mr. H.G.
Evans--Foreigners of Ta-li Fu--Chinese mandarins--Mammals at Ta-li--Caravan
horses and mules--The cook becomes ill

CHAPTER XII

LI-CHIANG, AND THE "TEMPLE OF THE FLOWERS"