Leaving the name for the present, according to the scheme of the route as I shall try to explain it below, I should seek for Amu or Aniu or _Anin_ in the extreme south-east of Yun-nan. A part of this region was for the first time traversed by the officers of the French expedition up the Mekong, who in 1867 visited Sheu-ping, Lin-ngan and the upper valley of the River of Tungking on their way to Yun-nan-fu. To my question whether the description in the text, of Aniu or Anin and its fine pastures, applied to the tract just indicated, Lieut. Garnier replied on the whole favourably (see further on), proceeding: “The population about Sheu-ping is excessively mixt. On market days at that town one sees a gathering of wild people in great number and variety, and whose costumes are highly picturesque, as well as often very rich. There are the _Pa-is_, who are also found again higher up, the _Ho-nhi_, the _Khato_, the _Lopé_, the _Shentseu_. These tribes appear to be allied in part to the Laotians, in part to the Kakhyens.... The wilder races about Sheuping are remarkably handsome, and you see there types of women exhibiting an extraordinary regularity of feature, and at the same time a complexion surprisingly _white_. The Chinese look quite an inferior race beside them.... I may add that all these tribes, especially the Ho-nhi and the Pa-ï, wear large amounts of silver ornament; great collars of silver round the neck, as well as on the legs and arms.” Though the _whiteness_ of the people of Anin is not noticed by Polo, the distinctive manner in which he speaks in the next chapter of the _dark_ complexion of the tribes described therein seems to indicate the probable omission of the opposite trait here.