MANDALAY, THE CAPITAL OF INDEPENDENT BURMA; FROM MANDALÉ HILL.
MANDALAY TO MOMIEN:
A NARRATIVE
OF THE
TWO EXPEDITIONS TO WESTERN CHINA
OF 1868 AND 1875
UNDER
COLONEL EDWARD B. SLADEN
AND
COLONEL HORACE BROWNE.
BY
JOHN ANDERSON, M.D.Edin., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., F.Z.S.
FELLOW OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY;
CURATOR OF IMPERIAL MUSEUM AND PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY,
MEDICAL COLLEGE, CALCUTTA;
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC OFFICER TO BOTH EXPEDITIONS.
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1876.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
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PREFACE.
Seven years have elapsed since the date of the expedition whichfurnishes the subject of the larger portion of this work. Its resultshave been recorded, but can hardly be said to have been published, inthe official reports of the several members, printed in India, and notaccessible to the general reader.
The public interest in the subject of the overland route from Burmato China, called forth by the repulse of the recent mission and thetragedy which attended it, has suggested the present publication. It ishoped that a compendious and popular account of the expedition of 1868will be acceptable, if only as an introduction to the simple narrativeof the mission of this year, commanded by Colonel Horace Browne. Thestatement of the difficulties which beset our advance in 1868 willprepare the reader to estimate the opposition which, under a changedpolitical condition of the country, compelled the mission under ColonelBrowne to return without accomplishing its object.
The narrative of our experiences of the border[Pg iv] country between Bhamôand Yunnan, and its motley population, has been supplemented frommaterials collected by Colonel Sladen, including a catalogue of Kakhyendeities obtained by him, and which will be found in the Appendix, alongwith a Panthay account of the origin of the Chinese Mahommedans. Tohim, as well as to my fellow travellers, Captain Bowers and Mr. Gordon,I gladly record my obligations for the information that has beenderived from them.
For many details illustrating the condition of Yunnan and theMahommedan revolt in that province, I am indebted to the volumes,issued by the French government, which contain the results of theFrench expedition from Saigon to Yunnan, under Lagrée, Garnier, andCarné, whose premature loss their country has to deplore, and to thetravels of that enterprising pioneer of commerce, Mr. T. T. Cooper.
No one can treat of the border lands of Cathay without derivingassistance