Journey of Six Miles with Stones for New Roads Made Nightly for a Few Coppers Luchowfu, June 13.
While people starved, new crops was the suffering until they noticed that thousands of trees had been stripped of their bark, which had been made into a kind of saw-dust cake, to be eaten by human beings. Only yesterday I was seriously informed that many people consider the bark of trees a comparatively good food—that is, compared with much that they have to eat.
And this in the rich, central Anhwei district of Luchowfu.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.