Tired but happy we returned to the boat and slept like logs despite. the stiletto-armed mosquitoes who. hel festive board on the uncovered po ing, after a swim in the deeper part of the river, we watched Tung: fade out over the stern. Shorlly before noon our usual daily programme suffered interruption. Getting 100 close to the rocky bank we were! caught by the current an¢ holed just below the water line by a jonged outcrop. 'The boatmen of the Chien tang, however, are used to this sort of thing and with the help of a big hamuner, the doctor's stock' of cott wool, some straw, and a packing case mads a speedy and effectual repair.
That evening we had supper on a grassy bank that stretched up from the river to the foothills, After sup: per, the doctor gave us an interesting talk on the history of medicine and its importance to the popple of all times The lecture finished, two of three of us sat on, for the beauty of] the scene made itself felt, A silvery habitable for fishes. 'There was even a possibility that the Nile and the Suez Canal' would disappear, but he not wish to discuss these other Prophecies because in these days of "scepticism we, will be called fanatics and. dreamers."
He expects the general public to be sceptical, Me himself was a seeptle four years ago; he then decided to make a study of It, and is now firmly convinced, Professor D, Davide son, he said, was but one British solentist of many who set out\to prove that the whole thing was nonsense, Aller teen years of painstaking research, Davidson came to the absolute conclusion that the converse was the case, and embodied his findings in a book which was published under the title of "Phe Great Pyramid. Divine Message," in 102.
He also mentioned a large number of highly technical books on the subject, which he said could be obtained froma certain book-store In Shang-hal, and expressed the feeling that even the most deeply-rooted atheist, after reading through several of them and carefully verifying the astronomy ical and other computations contain= ced in them, could not help feeling that there was' some 'Supreme Mind oF Guiding Force governing the people of the world. Those who. merely Jaughed side' the work of these British scientists as nonsense, without faking the trouble of examining the facts, wore betraying themselves, Mone than 300,000 persons, presenting nearly one-third of the {otal population" in' Nanking, are iterate in the capital, according 10 official statistics compiled by the lovely strip of water. 'The bends in the iver at each end of the valley tive the impression that one is over Tooking a lob, In fact. a closer resempianee to some of the Scottish lochs would' be difeult to find, Flowers of every hue adorned the mountainside while huge arum Illes spriusing from every crevice added perfume to the riot of colour, From the East Peak one' looks vertically down on a tiny temple nestling at the foot, It is from this temple that tea, carried in hollow bamboo tubes, 1s brought to the summit to refresh the climber, Our party certainly made short work of the double supply that had been brought up.
Reluctantly we retraced our steps dow the steep footpath, stopping many times during the do sent as some new vantage-point wtTered. further scenic delights, At the temple we drunk bowl afier bow! of the fragrant tea and gossiped to the old lady who between Alling up bowls regaled us with tales of bandits and iverpirates. Old, but hale and hearty, one could imagine her in the act a8 she told the story of how she had once barricaded the temple door with bedstead and table to prevent the entrance of the bandits,
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