Two old lottery tickets and the prize list in Chinese were on one wall of his room, on the other were a number of Chinese visiting cards, to which I graciously permitted him to add mine.
Soldiers accompanied me from camp to camp, Chinese soldiers from districts many hundreds of miles distant in China.

Some were armed, some were unarmed, and there was equal confidence to be reposed in the one as in the other; but all were civil, and watched me with a care that was embarrassing.
At the first camp beyond Schehleh the gateway was ornamented with trophies of valour.

From two bare tree-trunks baskets of heads were hanging, putrefying in the heat.

They were the heads of Kachin dacoits.
And thus shall it be done with all taken in rebellion against the Son of Heaven, whose mighty clemency alone permits the sun to shine on any kingdom beyond his borders.

Kachin villages are scattered through the forest, among the hills.