Co.'s establishment, although the Europeans were away, I was most hospitably received and again given hot milk and and eggs. For the first time in 3} months I slept on a bed, and for the first time in more than a month I had a bath—a most refreshing steaming bath—and after all what luxury can really approach a bath?
Next morning (August 16) I was carried on a mountain chair into Talifu where I rested and recuperated in the most hospitable Mission of the C.I.M. for 15 days before starting for Yunnanfu, on the last stage of an_ ill-fated journey. I had lost just over 30 Ib. in weight, while a "guest" of the bandits, and badly needed the rest and attention at Talifu.
At Talifu I was much interested in getting first hand information of what transpired in_ the brigands' camp after my departure. I have already related that there was with me in captivity a young soldier, who had formed part of the original escort, when L was taken, and that one, Chiao, the Chinese cook from the Mission, had joined us a few days before
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