Slight Relief to Hongkong Exporters Tachienlu, July 14.
Messrs. Mandeville and Rubin, the entering dangerous territory, the As the two Shanghai men were now Prest Cox Oww Commroxomre Kaifeng, Aug. 7.
Prest Ocn Owx Commsroxonr Hongkong, Aug. 9.
Prest Oux Own Conzsronneet Hongkong, Aug. 9, two young Shanghai men at present fon the Tibetan frontier, returned yesterday from a most interesting visit to Litang, reported to be the highest, dirtiest, and laziest city in the world.
Leaving Tachienlu some three weeks ago, they made a most spectacular exit from this border city. 'The Yocal Chinese authorities very' kindl placed two ula horses at their posal, and mounted on these, the two travellers started on the eight days' Journey to the high and dirty city of Litang.
If the two ula animals that Messrs. Mandeville and Rubin rode had been, endowed with speech they would have made very serious objections to the amount of stuff they had to carry, apart from the persons of the two adventurers.
The traveller in Kham, Eastern Tibet, has great diMeulty in nding anything so, nice and clean and con-Yenient as "The Bull and Frog" and "The Elephant and Tiger" and similar charming inns found in delightful Kent. He may find both the bull and the frog, of a very pugnacious type, occupying the same Tibetan house, fand sharing the accommodation with other "undesirable creatures and characters. 'Tibetan buildings look quite palatial and handsome, on the outside, but the interior is an active haunt' of vileness and uncleanness, and the dwelling place of pigs, goats, sheep, cows, yak, and horses, "with all the minors of these different ercatures. And to reach the upstale rooms, the adventurer must portores paddle his way through a quagmire of slime and mud and with, which penetrates and permeates every: hing and everyone that dwells above it.
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