in great numbers & placed above & every objective possessed. They could not be driven away. (27) From Hsiang to we joined to Lung-lung in seven hours. The landscape remained the same type as previous days very hilly & broken, the road dropping down into many steep ravines with small creeks interlaced, torceding again, there being no level stretches. At Lung-lung the magistrate held up there was fighting at Mang Shih, a large Shan vil- lage 1 day south where we had denounced to Chung-kwan. The Shoers are here raising opium & fighting the govern- ment troops who attempt to stop them. On this account the magistrate could not let us go there so we turned northward up the Shwele Ri valley to the high pass on th Salwen divide on the Teng-yuel Yungchong road. The night was cold & the climate here quite