July 28—We left the mout top, and had a steep and dangerous descent, as the narrow paths were slippery with the rain. Meavy showers were falling nearly all day.
rs, D.'s chairmen tried bravely to sary her, but they slipped again jand again, and at last came to a dead stop, $0 she had to join us afoot, and it was as much as we could do to keep on our feet and psi and slide our way through the tortuous paths and over the swollen streams. On coming to a wayside shanty our men badly wanted to stay. the night there, but we determined iz|to push on to the temple some miles. ahead, We walked down narrow gullies, sometimes wading the streams, and as rain continued we had a thorough wetting. "The scenery was grand; we passed one {place very much like the "Strid" at Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, At Length we arrived at the quiet Buddhist temple where I now write, is charmingly situated among wild
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