Supplementary Papers Author:Royal Geographical Society General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: J. Murray Subjects: Geography New Guinea Haiti Nigeria Tripoli (Libya) Cyrenaica Morocco Turkey Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you b... more »uy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX D. Longitude Of Positions. APPENDIX E. Magnetic Variation. SenlereJ. II. JOUENEY TO TA-CHIEN-LU, IN 1878. Chcng-chino, July 7, 1878. I Have the honour to report my return from a journey which, originally planned as a mere New Year's holiday, extended, from one cause and another, to Ta-chien-lu. I had started with the intention of making a rough survey of the river between Eiating and Sui-fu (Blakiston's Su-chow), and of crossing the mountains from the former city to Fu-liu, in longitude 103. On reaching Fu-liu, however, the country further west held out so many attractions, that I was induced to travel on to Tzu-ta-ti, the head-quarters of a Sifan chief styled ""Wang Ch'ien-lni" ("Wang of a 1000 families "). Here I heard of the existence of a mountain track to Ta-chien-lu, and it seemed a pity to miss the opportunity of visiting that famous border town; but I abandoned the project on receiving a hint from the chief that he could not guarantee my safety in so wild a region. Thereupon I turned back ; but at the village of Na-erh-pa, the first stage, I was robbed, during the night, of my travelling funds and of several miscellaneous articles of no great value. This placed me in a very awkward position, especially as the sub-assistant magistrate, who resides a day's journey from the place, failed to take any action in the matter. After giving him fair time to put in an appearance, I sent a messenger to the capital with a letter which he was to give to my old YUnnan acqu...« less