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Title: Mandalay to Momien: A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Anderson, John, 1833-1900 Sladen, E. B. (Edward Bosc), 1827-1890 Browne, Horace Albert, 1832-1914
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
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We leave Tsitkaw â Camp at Tsihet âBurmese guard-houses âLankon, Ponline â Camp on the Moonam âHostile rumours â Camp on the Nampoung â Departure of Margaryfor Manwyne â Esca))e of hostages âLetter from Margary âWe enterChina â Campon Shitee Meru âBurmese vigilance âVisit to SerayâConference with Seray tsawbwa â Suspicious reception â Eeturn tocamp â Burmese barricades. The village of Tsitkaw, which seemed little changedas to its dirty poverty since my recollections of1868, consists of about eighty huts, built on piles,enclosed within a bamboo stockade, which wasbeing repaired. The western half of the village isoccupied by Chinese, and for the first time the Chinesewomen are seen, for there are none in Bhamo. Atthis time the Celestials were busy erecting a woodentemple outside the stockade. Their principal mencame to our khyoung to greet Li-kan-shin, otherwiseMoung Yoh, who was known to them, and hadbeen supposed to be dead. In the Buddhist khyoung,
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RESIDENCE AT TSITKAW. 401 two French missionaries, Father Lecomte and another,whom we had met at Bhamo, liad taken up theirabode. They professed to be engaged in openingcommunications between their mission in Burma andthat in Yunnan, and liad made interest to accompanyour party. It now appeared that they proposed pro-ceeding to Manwyne by themselves ; but the Woonof Bhamo interfered, and refused to allow them toenter the Kakhyen hills on the north of the Tapeng.We were rather puzzled to understand their exactobject or account for their sudden change of plans. We had to remain at Tsitkaw some days, until theKakhyen chiefs assembled and the mules for carriageto Manwyne arrived. The air and water are betterthan at Bhamo, and our sojourn, with its excursion?,was a pleasant time. Our residence consisted of twobamboo houses, as it were, placed side by side, thedrainage of the two roofs in the centre being caughtin a hollowed log of wood. A wooden ladder led upto the first apartment, beyond

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