Then he inquired particularly who we were and when he discovered that we belonged to the Fu yin and not the Roman Catholic Mission quieted down. By this time one of our travelling companions had come to the rescue and had gradually induced the man to sit down at a tea table, and ho carefully exploit ed to the man who we were, so that by the time I arrived on ti the party were about to start again on their way, He inquired of mo who we were and he remarked that the Fu Yin Tang people. were all right, they exhorted people to do right but, i€ we had been Roman Catholics, he would have killed us all with his pipe. He said the Roman Catholic Mission had leveled his ancestors' graves and erected a church over them, hence his animaosity.
After he had gone on his way the! tea shop folk told us he was a off his head. He was well known to them as his home was close by.
On this occasion our Chinese travelling companions again were very helpful. I wonder if a foreigner and his family could travel for week across country in any of our home lands without being molested by hooligans or a mentally unsound individual Along this road we noticed two methods of harvesting wheat. The general method was to break off each ear of ripened grain and drop it into basket which was taken to the farm house where it was threshed with a flail, but in a few fields we found men threshing it in the field as they do the rice, that is beating the sheaves against' lattice in a large tub. About Junghsien water ix usually raised from a lower field to a hixcher level by foot power, two men treading thy spokes of a Targe Wheel and thus" causing an endless chain of paddles to carry the water up a trough, Along most of the road hand-por tone or two men turning the cha of paddles by one or two cram handles on the wheel. It was worthy of note, how was in each dist Yang Sen's Campaign At Chungking we found that} 'Yang sen (formerly Tuchun of Szechuan but driven out a year had apparently made some arrangement, with Yuan Tsu-ming, for men had advanced' to the outer Customs station, without any fighting. Yuan was evidently preparing to leave Chungking. He and his offi cers had sent their women folk ba to Kueichow and he had reduced hi demand on the city from a million and a half to one million and would probably be content with less for quick delivery. Ami the pointed to Yang Sen soon being in if: So far as one could deter mine from the member of soldiers below Chungking, it would look though Yang were working a bluff Certainly we saw very few soldiers along the river. Steamers were num. erous and were coming and going without molestation. Yanz Sen was collecting a tonnage fee of all at} may lead to action that will demand reckoning. It is certainly sowing the wind and the harvest will assuredly be a whirlwind.
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