'To reach the temple near the top fakes about four hours. Here you will ud rough accommodation bare, but fairly clean, wooden cublcles' with trestle beds "for which clean Chinese bedding' is provided. And those who care for it can have the usual vegetarian temple fare, 1 ook with me only a haversack with washing tackle, spare socks and 50 forth, and was not too uncomfortable. Those who, nevertheless, do not care for this kind of rough board and Jodging, need not be deterred from making the ascent, as any number of coolies can be hired at the bottom to carry up all one wants in the way of food and bedding, while chairs can be hired for the weaker brethren for whom the prospect of the 6,000 slops proves too much, Tt was quite cold at the top, when I was there (in ApriD; May is a belter month to visit the place, A terrific gale, as it seemed to me, was howling round the temple eaves, and made walking on some of the nar~ Jrower ledges very dimeult. But 1 was assured that this was merely a specimen of a "small wind."
Two Famous Sights To do the Huangshan properly one ought to stay several days at the top, For there are numerous peaks to be Visited, specially the 'Tientufeng (Peak ' on the confines of Heaven), very, well named, as it is a tremen: dorisly steep and stiff climb, about fan hour away from the temple. Above all, there are the two famous sights of' the Huangshan: the sun rising over the Yangize, seen from the above peak: and the "Sea of Clouds" at one's feet, when it is raining in the plains below.
For obvious reasons, one is not itkely to see both sights on the same} dzy. and in any case neither of them are by any means of dally occurrence, To see the sun rise from the Tientufeng masus yelling up a couple of hours before" sunrise. Being of a pessimsile disposition 1 fore went the, pleasure, and was wise in my genera-ten for although I did get up -to 'g® see the sun rise from the temple, there was no sun to be seen at all that morning. 'The Sea of Clouds, 100, Proved a complete wash-out:' the clouds instead of being below us, were above us, and it was raining' hard fon the Huangshan itself,
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