This prefecture has four hsiens, all of which are on the Yuen river. The tivo below here suffered great loss on account of the floods of the past summer. Thousands of acres are now under water, and will remain so for weeks or months to come. Near the S. W. corner of the Tungting lake was a "new country," which had almost been reclaimed by embankments, and many copie had gone there to make their little james. It is now a part of the lake, and is likely to be such for years owing to most of the cly ko han Hundreds of people have been destroyed aut temporary grass huts on the river banks, and others are crowding into the already full cities and villages with the hope of getting employment to hel; them through winter. At one place _counted nine boatloads of these people begging cash and wood from a passing lumber raft.
As an old gentleman recently remarked, the poor people will "eat bitterness to the extreme" the winter.
10th October.
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