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not isolated & the inhabitants have free intercourse with the townspeople.  It is remarkable how little travel is engaged in by the foreign residents we have met.  None of them go beyond their stations & the nearest port where they can get a steamer for home.  The missionaries of Fouchow dont know Hong Kong or the ports south of it while those of [[?Haidram]] do not know Tongking or the small ports only Hong Kong.  We only found by inquiring two men in Hong Kong who had been in Yunnan.

The interior of Hai-Nan is without roads or trails & the jungle is very dense so that the explorer must cut his way thru.  Only one European has attempted to reach the highest mountains, the British consul, Pearson!  Some Japanese have been murdered by the natives of the mountains who also kill any of the coast Chinese who enter the mountains. 

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