Across China on Foot

Although the tribes were here then--and in a rawer state even then than they are at the present time--little was known about them, and men had not yet developed the cult of putt...

_Stampede of frightened women_. _To the Eagle Nest_. _An acrobatic performance, and some retaliation at the author's expense_. _Over the mountains to Pu-pêng A magnificent storm...

_Stages to the capital_. _Universality of reform in China_. _Political, moral, social and spiritual contrast of Yün-nan with other parts of the Empire_. _Inconsistencies of cele...

_Szech-wan people a mercenary lot_. _Adaptability to trading_. _None but nature lovers should come to Western China_. _The life of the Nomad_. _The opening of China, and some im...

_The Valley of the Shadow of Death_. _Stages to Tengyueh_. _The River Mekong, Bridge described_. _An awful ascent_. _On-the-spot conclusions_. _Roads needed more than railways_....

_Access to Yün-nan-fu_. _Concentrated reform_. _Tribute to Hsi Liang_. _Conservatism and progress_. _The Tonkin-Yün-nan Railway_. _The Yün-nan army_. _Author's views in 1909 and...

_Digression from travel_. _How rebellions start in China_. _Famous Boxer motto_. _Way of escape shut off_. _Riots expected before West can be won into the confidence of China_....

_Stages to Tali-fu_. _Worst roads yet experienced_. _Stampede among ponies_. _Hybrid crowd at Anning-cheo_. _Simplicity of life of common people_. _Does China want the foreigner...

_Revolting sights compensated for by scenery_. _Most eventful day in the trip_. _Buying a pony, and the reason for its purchase_. _Author's pony kicks him and breaks his arm_. _...

_The mountains of Yün-nan_. _Wonderful scenery_. _Among the Mohammedans_. _Sorry scene at Ch'u-tung_. _A hero of a horrid past_. _Infinite depth of Chinese character_. _Mule fal...

_Peculiar forebodings of early morning_. _A would-be speaker of English_. _The young men of Yün-nan and the Reform Movement_. _Teachers of English_. _Remarks on methods adopted_...

_Beginning of the overland journey_. _The official halo around the caravan_. _The people's goodbyes_. _Stages to Sui-fu_. _A persistent coolie_. _My boy's indignation, and the s...

_Szech-wan and Yün-nan_. _Coolies and their loads_. _Exports and imports_. _Hints to English exporters_. _Food at famine rates_. _A wretched inn at Wuchai_. _Author prevents mur...

_A bumptious official_. _Ignominious contrasts of two travelers. Diminishing respect for foreigners in the Far East_. _Where the European fails_. _His maltreatment of Orientals_...

_Chinese and simplicity of speech_. _Author and his caravan stopped_. _Advice to travelers_. _Farewell to Sui-fu_. _The postal service and tribute to I.P.O._ _Rushing the stages...

_Lu-fêng-hsien and its bridge_. _Magnificence of mountains towards the capital_. _Opportunity for Dublin Fusiliers_. _Characteristic climbing. Crockery crash and its sequel_. _M...

_Stages to the Mekong Valley_. _Hardest part of the walking tour_. _Author as a medical man_. _Sunday soliloquy_. _How adversity is met_. _Chinese life compared with early Europ...

_To Lu-chiang-pa_. _Drop from 8,000 feet to 2,000 feet_. _Shans meet for the first time_. _Dangers of the Salwen Valley exaggerated_. _How reports get into print_. _Start of the...

_Two days from Burma_. _Tropical wildness induces ennui_. _The River Taping_. _At Hsiao Singai_. _Possibility of West China as a holiday resort from Burma_. _Fascination of the...

_Scene at the Rapid_. _Dangers of the Yeh T'an_. _Gear taken ashore_. _Intense cold_. _Further preparation_. _Engaging the trackers_. _Fever of excitement_. _Her nose is put to...

_Yün-nan's chequered career_. _Switzerland of China_. _At Hong-sh[=i]h-ai_. _China's Golden Age in the past_. _The conservative instinct of the Chinese_. _How to quiet coolies_....

_To Ichang, an everyday trip_. _Start from Shanghai, and the city's appearance_. _At Hankow_. _Meaning of the name_. _Trio of strategic and military points of the empire_. _Han-...

_To travel in China is easy. To walk across China, over roads acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilized country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation un...

_Gloom in Ichang Gorge_. _Lightning's effect_. _Travellers' fear_. _Impressive introduction to the Gorges_. _Boat gets into Yangtze fashion_. _Storm and its weird effects_. _Wu-...

_Last stages of long journey_. _Characteristics of the country_. _Sham and Kachins_. _Author's dream of civilization_. _British pride_. _End of paved roads_. _Mountains cease_....

_Travel up the Salwen Valley_. _My motive for travelling and how I travel_. _Valley not a death-trap_. _Meet the Li-su_. _Buddhistic beliefs_. _Late Mr. G. Litton as a traveler_...

The following is a rough list of the principal rapids to be negotiated on the river upward from Ichang. One of the chief discomforts the traveler first experiences is due to a t...

The second part of my trip was from almost the extreme east to the extreme west of Yün-nan--from Tong-ch'uan-fu to Bhamo, in British Burma. The following was the route chosen, o...