'Midway between Yenping and' Kienning lies the considerable town of Nanya near which reside some of the most curious and interesting among the aboriginal tribes that inhabit Fukien. We could not stop then to take pictures, but T wanted to "get the dope" concerning there people, so we stopped there and I went immediately to interview the magistrate, He confirmed all that T had previously been told and, offered every assistance, though he warned us frankly that we would never succeed in getting these people to pose for photographs as thy' were extremely shy and even object-
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