In times of crisis the Chine-e character comes out in its lest attractive phases, The head-coolie on the plex of going for more coylies either tailed (collect or failed to pay up his men and they refused to sorry unless passengers would promise to pay them individually at the end of the trip (i.e, on top of the mountain), Of course they (i.e., the foreigners) wera willing to pay anybody anywhere if the things would only go up promptly. With the head man thus beheaded (i.e. stripped of authority for the time being), the cartiers became somewhat demoralised one person would get only a part of his effects, while others would have everything stored for the time at the Rest House.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.