Two days later we burned another large town called Keng Yii, and, marching all that night and with very short rests, the whole of next day, we reached a wild retreat in the mountains northwest of Talifu Lake and ority some two to three days from Talifu itself. By this tume, due to constant fever and illness and enduring frequent forced marches, often wet and generally living under revolting conditions, I was physically in a very bad way and was gradually becoming weaker and weaker. After the end of July, however, we fortunately rested two or three days ata time, and only did short marches from that time on. Indeed, I could not then have endured any long sustained physical effort.
It was here that the brigands commenced to parley seriously with the authorities and secured the services of one—Pére
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