In the morning we got off at day Tight and, although the general scenery was much like the day fore, the hills did appear a bit taller }and tess cultivated ang, as T watched [the landsenpe slide pas, T reckoned that, at last, we wore coming into the Min that Thad heard about. The morning: passed, however, and it half-past favo when suddenly, from the eft bank, came the sound of repented, explosions. Bandits! Our Russian feaptuin and my camera man, {had been seated near me where were conversing together, suddenly disappeared. T stood up ind looked toward the left bank from where we hhowrd the reports and then it suddenly occurred to me that the open Tdeck was, for the moment, no place to tarry upon and I eventually joined the captain and Krainukov in the for-net's cabin. We were stopped! avid had "shell out kale" before we were allowed to continue our passage, but the whole tale cannot be related her: and will come later. Suffice it, for the present, to say that the bandits did not get' us on that we continued on towards that pital. Iam hoping later, in con nexion with some lecture work' which I plan to do in the States, to ise some funds for this and other stitutions of the sort. For if ever 'a good work has deserved ample support it is that of the medical missionaries in this unfortunate country. The upper wards of the hospital were fairly full when we arrived and nearly every case was fof gun-shot wounds and nearly every one was inflicted by the bandits.
A Marvellous Gorge On the following morning, _ac-' companied by my taxidermist and a locally hired individual who called himself a cook, we made an early' start for the gorge. We did not get far, however, for before a third of the distaree was covered we were Bar od a A Vause an rie Ware Pires A peculiar and elaborate system ts cil in Yenping of extrsinge caught in a deluge of rain and after three hours, seated on al ccattin in the shelfs of a dilapidated crile, we were obliged to give it up for the da and return to the city.
The next day we were more Fortamate as though it rained, we were still able to travel an by hard lat ceeasion and pushing reached the entrance into tive gorge by noon. I found this
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