The Archive · 1888

Signed, E. & R. S. Yorke

have been transported in many curious fashions, but certainly never expected to be carried all day in a clothes basket, dangling from a bamboo pole, as I was from Snowy Valley here. It seems to be the sedan chair of these hilly regions. Our journey took longer than it should have, Cly:

think, ten hours with only half an hour's rest for luncheon, We had to pay two dollars each chair, and sixty cents fur each baggage carrier. The men seemed greatly to enjoy themselves,

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