From Shanchow to Sian we travelled by cart, and did the journey in the usual six days, without any unusual experience, apart from just escaping a little band of robbers, who had just robbed another party ju front of, us. At Sian we stayed for four days in the Mission premises before starting on the next stage. From Sian to Lanchow we again travelled by cart, doing it in the usual 18 stages. Passing over the La-pan-san, the mountain just the other side of Ping-liang, (10,000 feet high), se again escaped "the robbers. There were between three fand four hundred of them.—Other travellers met them, and with the usual result. One Post Office cart containing bags or over 1,000 catties weight, was taken, including the cart and four mules, We actually saw some of these robbers. At Lanchow we staged another five days, and than set out on the last stage of six days journey to Sining, travelling by a mountain road, instead of the cart road, which is nine days journey. This again was uneventful. We' travelled by mule litter and horseback, and on July
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