The office block towered into the sky.

K'un-ming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, is also a communication center, with highways leading to Szechwan Province in the north, to Kuei-yang in the east, and, through Ta-li and Hsia-kuan in western Yunnan to the important frontier town of T'eng-ch'ung in the west.

The shepherd's sea-girt reign; or, to the rocks Dire-clinging, gathers his ovarious food

It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.