Fokien is the more interesting on account of the great variety of scenery passed through, more especially as one travels out of the!
hills near the sex coast into the mountain regions near the Kiangsi darder. Frankly, Iwas much disappointed in the far famed Min river which had been described to me as the wildest and most beautiful stream in China, True, it is] beautiful but there is evidence of much cultivation all along the banks and it is not until one passed well beyond Kienyang that there is any suggestion of wildness. Here the hills are more abrupt, the red grass of the lower river gives place to heavy bamboo thickets, interspersed with palm trees and the dense jungle crowds down to the very water's edge, and the noises that we hear coming from this tangle of. veget-_ tion proclaim the fect that, althoug® invisible, there are in reality many. arrange forms of animal life in the depths of the-forests. Yes, the Min beautiful, and those who have seen
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