In ore remote spot, where the sort '4 overhung by' precipitous Focks which rise perpendicular to a dizzy height. a large family of monkeys make their appearance at Jcertain seasons of the year. There are many caves in the district and the "Fairy Queen cavern abounds in weird folklore. There is a very teresting thing connected with a temple visited chiefly by the hilt people. Here, the pillars, fine specimens of the sandalwood, are more revered than the idol." On each pillar, a deep groove has been worn by the time honoured custom of the worshippers rubbing a stone up the furrow, with a sharp jerk, land then, clinging ivy.
When I visited this temple I saw three fairly good sized stones still adhere ing to the wooden pillars Some of the villagers whose Jdwellings are amongst the hills on "Official Some months ago a party of passing through on their "offic Degging expedition. These unfortunate sufferers somehow fell foul of these village hooligans. A sharp skirmish followed and, it is said, that some 40 or 50 persons were done to death. Before the police could appear on the scene the dead had been hurriedly buried ina hi dug on the hill side so as to prevent the officials ascertain ho has had much to do with Chinese village life can verity this to the hilt. On 'a5 E approached some houses, I saw an excited crowd and 'a man in the centre, tied hand and foot and blooding copiously fro many wounds. He was a thief jeaught red-handed. "Why don't you take him to the official?" I said, "We are the officials," was the reply. The thief was a man from another district who had been engaged by a neighbour to cultivate the hill land. The enraged villagers, went to the home of this neighbour jand cleaned him out of the mos: Part of his household effects. The thief was bundled out of the district in such a way that he will think twice before venturing again to the vicinity where he deviated from the path of rectitude,
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