Kin-sha Kiang, Yunnan, China (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Mr. Cooper’s Journal, when on the banks of the Kin-sha Kiang, west of Bathang..."

"The Kin-sha Kiang or Upper course of the Great Yang-tzŭ, descending from Tibet to Yun-nan, forms the great bight or elbow to which allusion has just been made…"

"…and the Kin-sha Kiang would be crossed as already indicated, near its most southerly bend, and almost due north of Yun-nan fu."