Ching Hal is really charming. The lake is perhaps a mile long and half a mile wide, and is surrounded with bare bills which rise up into 2 peak on one side. The surface of the water when we arrived was covered with duck, and geese whic rest here cil day, feeding in the adjacent country at night. On the banks of tais lake we pitched a camp as soon as the baggage mules Besides, they're tactful; they don't ask questions....In Rue Lafayette she spent an hour with Mr. W. a very rich English Jew. He'd hented some of the finest property in Bubbling Well. He was so smitten with her that he signed a cheque for forty thousand dollars for her on the spot. Then he set her up in a swell hat shop."
The extract can go without comiment, save that the very wealthy English Jew, if he has been nipped in the present depression, must now be regretting his generosity. And also, that if the "sugar daddies" of [Shanghai are so profuse with their (dollars, there should be no need to \organize a traffic in women. Every oman of loose morals would flock to the city in the hope of duplicate ing Katia's luck; and in that case, what happens to the "Road to came in just before dusk. The elevation is not less. than '6,000 feet, and it is pretty cold, indeed tpo cold to be pleasant, I did not sleep well at_nights, The next day (November 12) was. Sun Yat-sen's birthday, to which fact 1 owed, to some extent, this remarkable journey since tt was a holiday for my companions, After fan early breakfast we set off to visit the Casin Bridge across the Shweli River, and the falls of the Shweli River, which were to set a crown upon' these explorations in Yunnan, since, as I have said, these laces are rarely visited. Our, way lay along a valley of extraordinary charm, Sometimes we crossed meadow spangled with flower we found the turf country covered with firs and other trees. It was like that all the way to the village of Pei-kyachaw (North Bridge River) where there was a very ancient, humpy and picturesque bridge across a-small steam. Here, and in a umber of other places, we saw {roups of "direction stones," or tablets, set up for the supposed benefit of travellers by people who have some desire they wish to be fulfilled. Hitherto the road had' been fairly level, and unusually wide, though the stone-paved surface was very tiring to the feet: but now we descended a long, narrow valley where there was not much sunshine, and where, consequently, the path was a succession of ridge and furrow swamps which delayed us a good deal: but, at length we reached a wide paddy plain in which the Shwelt (stil invisible to us) flows. Over against us stood the mountains which constitute the Irrawaddy-Salween divide,
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