is much smaller than usual, there being none from Chili, whence' large num. bers usually come. There is nothing inspiring about the stream of people who come to the town dust-covered an climb to the top of the hill, burn their paper sycee and incense, throw their offerings of copper cash or whatever they may have at the feet of the "Great Moun Lady," knock heads and crawl their painful way down again. Some who are more favoured as to worldly goods make the trip comfortably in mountain chairs and, like a great many Christians, make their money take the place of more personal service. that the foreigner could by no means sutvive the onslaughts of the braves in the North. This change of feeling does not indicate any change in the real sentiments of the people, but is because they have reengnised that his course has saved this province from the terrible vengeance visited on Chibi.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.