"When they had fixed on the The city of Miench'ih lies in a Pocket of the hills. Afflicted with drought for the past two years it fs now overrun with bandits, So that the people are at death's door. When we entered the district we saw that the ground was parched and the crops withered; the Peasants all had an unhealthy, starved, look. We visited the district' city and a number of villages and wore convinced that the people lived in deep water and hot fire such as outsiders have no feonception of. The following is 2 record of what we saw,
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