A Mr. Forrest, in the employ of a Li pool botanist, had had an extraordinary escape from the Llamas North of Tali, somewhere South of Datang. He was eight days hunted apou the hills by these mountaineers and only obtained " handfal or two of parched corn during that time, Afraid to move by day, he made way at night. Once lying by a log of wood he thought all was over as he saw some thirty Llamas approaching, but to his amazement they passed the stream some fow yards off and he was unmolosted.
They tracked him down like bloodhounds, so he had to walk in streams, and at Jast without his boots, as they saw the impress too easily in the sand and mud. He eventually reached the China Inland Mission Station at Talifa, ito hear that three Catholic Fathers had been murdered,
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