profit, the rupees which I purchased in Tengyueh for _11d._ were worth _13d._ in Bhamo.

For some curios which I purchased in the interior for _L2 5s._ I was offered when I reached civilisation _L14_.

Without doubt the journey across China is the cheapest that can be done in all the world.
I was sorry to say good-bye to my men, who had served me so faithfully.
And I cannot speak more highly of the pleasure of my journey than to declare that I felt greater regret when it was finished than I ever felt on leaving any other country.

The men all through had behaved admirably, and it is only fair to add that mine was the common experience of travellers in far Western China.

Thus a very great traveller in China and Thibet (W.W.