On our way to Omi Shan we have been delayed hi three 3 by torrents of rain and the impossibility of getting across the Ya river. To-day, as it. seemed better after a pouring night,, we sent our headman to enquire, but he brought. back word the ferry wax sealed. Later: on we saw roofs houses, a drowned dog, etc., fleati down the not leave off going.to order the people to kill: pork, or otherwise take life. Bigs we hope to get away before that order comes into cated with blue mould, whilet_our dog's force, for even our thermometers are thick; remonstrating roule, as he turns over and over, tall of the legion of fleas. All this in the boat inn's best room' indicates without saying that the mells.are. trying, and that wo.ghall be glad to get to the frosher. air of the great sacred mountain of Omi, beautifully situated though Kiating is, with fine trees -and green. gardens.cccupyin, much of the space, within, its. walls, and exquisite views of the mountains, and the three rivers that meet here, toget ith tree-clad islands, red 2 headlands, lovely. pavilions, old. square not. to speak of. the gigantic buddha, said to be 300 ft. high." There are caves too... One we explored was. tw: pees, sion 100 uy deep,. all: cat 6 ft. ae with recesses for sleeping, for.
ly chiselled out of the living rock,. ov is apparently, and quite elaborate-.
\ped doorways in which there evident-that, allowed. be e air to come, fa and yet ly. were most ingeniously constructed doo could not. be opened from the.outside, inst these. an otherwise forgotten the last developments of these: a. day a station.of the China Inland Mission, with.
g0.often now a member of the last adion to the Church Missionary Society "for purposes of study and economy'! Mr.. Hors party soe to be expected sburgh's to have an. ideal. befure it, that is to beach, complished at £20, year.
People, who. know, say it could be dot missionaries come out' to China for what they get, try a summer regimen of pork and chicken by way of meat, Chitiees sugar, that' has to be washed before it' ¢in be used, local blue green salt, and. all those other delicacies, that are to be gut fur £40 yeat where carriage from Shanghai too is about thrice as expensive as frou Rng! to Shanghai., And let those, who think' it is undertaken from a love of travel and adventure try. four years' confinometit to any Chinese city' of their acquaintan The two young men who started the China Inland Mission hero four years ago are still here. 'The people seem to like them' or respect them; "judging by the. way: they treated us, as we walked about with them. And never before has a woman in European dress walked through the streets of Kiating. Only in one po they rudely painted Across on a flight of steps, fancying: we would' be enable: Ca. walk hak, ree 1c: When the missionaries first came here the people fancied they: would steal: their children and do all mam ff dreadful things, so they their children's clothes, those Christians would not dare to touch' them. There is a Roman Catholic station here leo of course, and one of the Fathers there says, when he first came to Szechuan tweutyeight years ago ubout 1 per cou! tainly not more than $ per cent. opium. He now estimates that a: quarter of the population do. But thisisthe very lowoat estimate we have yet heard, and must one would think be under the mark... He'soems to think the people here an solves as fastaa they can. Certainly any! sicklier looking than the pupillation we encountered during the eleven days' land journey from Chungking "here: "I hope never to see. Tu sume places it was positively startling, the most fertile plan all round, and then a vi or, small town full of men. of oxttaordiniry pallor, sunken chests, "ud emaciated bodies,' or rather one would say. emaciated: ribs; there seemed to he no bodies. "The peely who were' travelling along tha road for leisure as it were, that is to say wit og ts of burden carrying heavy, loud took at firet fora new kind of rather, mostly had with thems small box, ihi smaller and more solid-looking han' what one: youally- sees... 4 i amoking box. The children looked heslthy, and even. between -Shidzuoka and Nagoya in Japan the crops hardly seemed plentiful, till we came to the groat ealt district, with its thousands of brine wells and lofty gallows, looking like English factory chimneys, where the gas foun the sput boils the salt, and ight up calt, works. The other' wonder of, the the road is the hillside cut into a colossal, ead Peralta ly gly ak tow not ook so antique as the Biatii anghai t is. freshly gilt, that it does, Buddha with, hanging taf'e of grat fof eyebrows, and stall shrubs for hair on the top-of the head. But that near Yung: hwion has the most claims to beauty, andi in ruling state of restoration, write, stands a spray whether it is the choléta still bad' here aa nourish, extorting only ans ion, where everything
in Chungking that causes the "sickly locke. of the people, or the: opium pipe, oF the stenches, it is impossible for the "paxing traveller toascortain.' It is quite ae much, he oati'do to stirvive the last'ns sanip] hinese inns on ste irisin roads, they aro- not sure yot is quite pial Bai, 25 July
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