Our food supply was, so scanty that my servant obtained permission to go back to Mienchu for bread, te, on Sunday and returned to us fon Monday evening not only with food but with welcome letters and! papers. It was such a comfort to hear again from the outside world.
On that Monday we had been taken up the valley in which the ancestral hhall was situated, We crossed a. narrow pole bridge and after tramping across the hills and fording mountain stream we reached the riverside in a side valley. We were
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