Note 5 — Chapter I · GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY

It is the Mur-usu (“Tortuous River”) in Tibet, the Chin or Kin Sha where it is the boundary between Tibet and China, and from the junction of the Yalung to Sui Fu the Chin Ho. Between Sui Fu and Wan Hsien it is called the Ta Ho (“Great River”) and the Min Chiang. At and below Sha-shih it is the Ching Chiang, and below Hankow for 400 miles it is called the Chiang, Ch’ang Chiang (“Long River”), or Ta-Kuan Chiang (“Great Official River”).