The most convenient and quickest way of accomplishing the return journey is to travel by boat down the Luanho. The city stands near the confluence of the Jeho with stream, and after the harvest grain-laden boats are constantly going down river, so that a traveller could reach Luanchou, on the Tientsin-Mukden Railway, in a couple of days, passing en route through some picturesque gorges and crossing the Great Wall at Hsiféngk'ou.
The deities presiding over these need to be continually ed, and a number of lamas ling in the Hsingkung spend all their time over the rites. Twice month they prepare a large charm—sort of circular mosaic of coloured
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