The Pucheng bus was equipped with meat and effective sun curtains but' these we pushed aside to get full bennet of the. view. Our seats Wore very oaty. There was room for every one and. a. commodious, beg-fe age, apartment at the. back which we placed our bags.
For the first few miles the motor road. followed the railway' line to-'Yushan, and have been through ear have sed thie road. beyond fotsen. Just beyond there the Pucheng road breaks off abruptly to hie south. A wooden guide. post. infdieates_in Chinese which. oad 10
lérive from Kiangshan. A few minus fake. he fork is about 25 minutes fies later wa passed the Three Sliced Rocks, @ conspicuous formation igh fon the hill to our left.
The next two villages at which stops, were made were Yutow" (Silt thend) and Maopan (Thatched Board) las and 55 minutes, respectively, from Pucheng (not being seated where the driver's instruments on his dash fee ard. were visible 1" was compelled usually to record progress by. time father than by. miles). Between Maopan and' Hislakow, we encounter-our. first river' crossing where the bridge was out. The stream was nearly dry, however, and the bus went over quite readily on the cobbiestone bed of the stream. A similar crossing was necessary beyond fErshinpata, "near the provincial boundary. "Either one of these might Ihave caused trouble had there been ecent rains, "Changed Dragon Stream" isiakow was reached by a short loranch. road. at, 10.30." To leave the village' we back tracked almost to tue Gry river bed and. then turned Sharply' to the left and into the pass. Here began the really thrilling" periences of the day. "he road went fipward through "narrow valley, following case to a" erysial cleat stream. There were many cuts fi tough seltd rock and one marvelled. at the expense and labour that must have been required to. con struct such a road. Descriptive adjec-
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