Immediately outside the city, however, a string of cash is a "full string" and contains 100 cash or rather it contains as few cash as possibly can be passed for 100, a fair average number being 98.
Silver is weighed in the City banks and at the wholesale houses on the "capital scale," but in the retail stores on scales that are heavier by 14 per cent.

(one mace and 4 candareens in the tael).

Outside the city on the road to Tali there is a loss on exchange varying according to your astuteness from 3 to 6 per cent.

on the capital scale.
There are two chief banks in Yunnan city.

Wong's whose bank, the signboard tells us, is "Beneficent, Rich, United," and Mong's "Bank of the Hundred Streams," which is said to be still richer.
With Mr.Jensen I called one evening upon Wong, and found him with his sons and chief dependents at the evening meal.