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Rh carried due west to a point on the river Nmai Hka, where Yün-nan is supposed to give place to Tibet.

The "North-East Frontier," then, may now be said to be a geographical reality, and the only work in connection with it which still remains—the introduction of civilisation, law, and order into the areas occupied by the less known of the border tribes—is a task which can be taken up at leisure, and which will doubtless be regarded as one which does not call for any immediate action. The dictum of