Tihwa, Sept. 26.
On September 8, I have at last, and not without a distinct feeling of thankfulness, reached this place, taking exactly 100 days to cover the 8,377 li, roughly 3,000. miles, that separates it from civilization, thus:
1,812 ik 2 by rail, Kuangyingtong—Sian 560 li 11 days mule litter 2 mules.
Sian—Lanchow 1,440 by 21 days emall cart 2 mules.
Lanchow—Suchow Kan 2 1,455 li days by big cart 3 mules.
Suchow Rai—Hami 1.500 li 22 days by big cart 4 mules.
Hami—Tihwa 1,530 li 20 di by big cart 4 mules.
Total 8,377 li 100 days.
other words, 14 "days in Chibi (Pecking-Shwangmiao); 64} days in Honan (Shwangmiao—Wentichen), loess country, 13 days Shensi (Wentichen-Changwnhsien), loess country, hilly; 53 days in Kansu_(Changwuhsien-Singsing-hsia), rocky, mountainous, stony and desert country; and 26 days in Binkiang, _(Singsinghsia-Tihwafu), desert, rocky, undulated stoney country. From Suchow Kan. to Tihwafu is, to all practical purposes, desert.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.