"[illegible]" the inhabitants have free intercourse with the Ting people, this remarkable how little travel is engaged in by the foreign residents we have met. None of them go beyond their stations to the nearest port where they can get a steamer for home. The minor officers of Barham don't know Hong Kong or the ports south of it while those of Haikow don't know Tongking or the small ports only Hong Kong we only found by inquiring that men in Tongking who had been in Yunnan. The interior of Hai-Nam is without roads or trails. The jungle is very dense so that the explorer must cut his way there. Only one European two attempted to reach the higher mountains, the British Consul Pearson! Some Japanese have been murdered by the natives of the mountains into absorb any of the coast Chinese who enter the mountains.