When going we noted the devastation caused by the storm of the 7th, ten days earlier. Here and there some houses hed been almost restored. In others, the people were wandering about aimlessly watching their few things. In quite " number of cases the walls only had fallen leaving framework and thatch intact. Home of these I noted were new, and I learned that they had been rebuilt after the raid of the White Wolf band in January when they. had been burnt. Some of the stages!
rest places had been utterly burnt out in the raid, others partly, and others left entirely alone, showing that the raid was not a systematic one, but followed the whims of the raiders, at the different places. The worst sight was at Hsiajuichiao, seventy li from here and twenty li from Huoshan city. Some described it as being a greater sufferer from the flood than the raid. Yet only a couple of houses were not burnt by the Wolves. That, too, was practi cally the southern limit of the storm, for although " few walls had fallen in Huoshan city, they were hardly worth noting, while thirty li farther in the south-west they did not even have rain.
Monsters of Ill Omen.
When fifty li out we saw prepaid tions being made for the Prefect and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.