Rockhill), writing in the _Century_, April, 1894, on the discomforts of his recent journey, says: "But never a word of complaint from either the Thibetans or my Chinese.
They were always alert, always good-tempered, always attentive to me, and anxious to contribute to my comfort in every way in their power.

And so I have ever found these peoples, with whom I am glad to say, after travelling over 20,000 miles in their countries, I have never exchanged a rough word, and among whom I think I have left not one enemy and not a few friends." Two days after their arrival in Bhamo my three men started on their return journey to Talifu.

They were laden with medicines, stores, newspapers, and letters for the mission in Tali, which for months had been accumulating in the premises of the American Mission in Bhamo, the missionary in charge, amid the multifarious avocations pertaining to his post, having found no time to forward them to their destination to his lonely Christian brother in the far interior.

And, had I not arrived when I did, they could not have been sent till after the rains.

A coolie will carry eighty pounds weight from Bhamo to Tali for _12s._; and I need hardly point out that a very small transaction in teak would cover the cost of many coolies.