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An Australian in China

CHAPTER XX
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The houses are collected mainly near the south gate, and extend beyond the south gate on each side of the road for half a mile on the road to Bhamo.

There is an excellent wall in admirable order, with an embankment of earth 20ft.

in width.

But I saw no guns of any kind whatever, nor did I meet a single armed man in the town or district.
Tengyueh is so situated that the invading army coming from Burma will find a pleasant pastime in shelling it from the open hills all around the town.

This was the last stronghold of the Mohammedans.


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