spite of its winding course, the reaches with wovsail funk, which Yalu River is spotted in the Tower carry much of the heavier cargo. ing three-hour drive to Keizan over very rough and tortuous road from Which we had our first glimpse of ur mountain objective. Keizan became our base of operations and afte= a certain amount of language diffieulty involving dictionary references, Pantomime and even a pencil sketch Of a horse, we procured two guides and two ponies, The elder of the Korean guides proved to be very ful and was always able to see the humourous side of minor disasters.
On the morning of September 4 the utile cavalcade set forth into the unknown with a light heart and well primed with highly optimist (as it Proved) mileage data and weather forecasts by the local photograph Inially the path followed the turbbulent Yalu River, whose well culivated slopes (once heavily wooded with pine) made a very pleasing shore of w mountain lake, We experienced a tense moment when we suddenly came upon a party of Ko-roan hunters, our guides concluding immediately that their last hour had jerome since the hunters certainly resembled the popular idea of ban-alts; incidentally it is apt to remark fut this point that during the whole rip the wildest things we saw were wild duck and one small snake, thus exploding the "hunter's paradise" story.
Mountain of Pumice Stone After almost 50 miles of practically unbroken forest we arrived on. the evening of the fourth day from Kel-zan, on the desolate slopes of Hakutosan, the Ever-White Mountain, name presumably derived from' tts coating of white pumice stones. At 9800 ft, 1,700 ft. from the summit,
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