In the sandy bed of the river at one place a caravan was resting.

Their packs were piled in parallel rows; their horses browsed on the hillside.

I counted 107 horses in this one caravan.
The prevailing pathological feature of the Chinese of Western Yunnan is the deformity goitre.

It may safely be asserted that it is as common in many districts as are the marks of small-pox.

Goitre occurs widely in Annam, Siam, Upper Burma, the Shan States, and in Western China as far as the frontier of Thibet.