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warriors & huntsmen, the women doing all the farm & household labor. Tali-fu he also visited by way of the roads we first travelled over. At that time it was the capital of Yun-nan. He tells about the salt wells & says the revenue went to the King as it now does to the govt so that for at least 700 years salt has been a govt. monopoly. On arriving at Yung Chang we visited several temples & found soldiers quartered in some but took possession of a large Teng-yueh temple just outside the [[strikethrough]] west [[/strikethrough]] south gate in the rice fields.
[[circled]] 22 [[/circled]] At 11 A.M. we called on the magistrate in his Yamen an old decayed temple. He is a man of about 40 yrs. broad shouldered & not very Chinese in physique. He receives us in the usual formal way & answered questions but showed little interest in our

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A yamen was the seat of local Chinese government