The arty surveying school here a few days ago was all bustle and life; for telegram had been received from the Governor at Nanning ordering the teachers and students, sbout fifty in number, to leave for Nanning and Longehou, in order thoroughly to survey and report upon the wi'd and, mountainous regions about the Kuangsi-Anam border, so as to facilitate future military ' operations in those chronically disturbed districts. They wont away fall of enthusiasm and life, but if all reports are true concerning: the unhealthiness of that district some at least are not likely to return. One of these students, who is a n of Sicbengfu, a city nestling a mountains of the "wild west" of Kuangsi, visited by but few foreigners, for it is 80 nunch out of the way of the beaten track, told me that two out ry three people suffer from large goitres; one was beginning to appear in his neck and he came to me for treat-
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