Tachienlu has entertained two markable women during the present year: one, Mrs, Adelaide Young, wn9 left the border a week ago, and the other, Mrs. J. Ogden who left yesterday on the 30 days' journey. to Batang, in the very heart of Asia Few women have endured such hard-hip on the frontier as this young Chinese American girl and endured, joyfully. She would sometimes Teave her husband and hi@brother away up on the slopes of the Gong Ga and. journey back to Tachienlu over high passes for stores and provisions. The journey occupies thre= days and her only companions were] a few Ula girls whose language she, could not speak, We often marvellat the daring and courage of this young New Jersey lady and when we bid her good-bye on the return trip we sometimes wondered how she would get on. Frequently she would come into town. having passed through a blinding snow storm the way across the Jao-si-la and say nothing about it iN we inquired now She got on. Her happy, breezy, indomitable spirit was a great asset fand must have been an inspiration to the members of the Hsikang Expedi-ton.
In one of her las letters. written from the Gong Ga temple under date of September 19 she says: have been chasing bears myself the last few days till Tam a nervous wreck. The perfect hunter, shaking at each crackling twig! Really it was no fun at all, because I would come back drenched from the dew and the rain, and nary a bear did I see, Lao Liu was my companion and carrier all weathers, amusing himself mostly by picking up acorns to roast the fire and" most unconcerned: about the bear.
The Great Moment .nd_ now "comes the biggest moment of my life. The eay before
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