A glance at the map of the places mentioned in the telegrams of the last few days while giving a genera! idea of the contour of the district from Chaotungfu to Suifu can give little idea of the mil difficulties of the countryside. Chaotungfu is about six thousand feet above sea level and from there to Chenhsiung, which is almost due east, is a high plain which at the last-named spot is still about 5,900 feet above the In the centro of the plain, h there is a range of hills rising to an altitude of -nearly eight -thousand feet. From Chenshiung striking north west the level gradually drops until at Laotawan the height is. only little over a thousand feet. While broadly speaking this is a plain, xt intersected by ravines and rivers 0 an extent which renders travel in these regions remarkably. difficult, even -for & single man or a small party.- There are practically speaking no roads, the country ix wild and-the inhabitants few and far between. On the plain: itself it-is too cold for rice growing and the
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