town below is pretty clean, lo good New Life efforts here. 'Phere are about £0 to 60 Chinese families and 445 Tibetan ones. We visited the hsien-hang and later were invited by him {oh strange occurrence) to an al fresco luncheon in' cur little grove, under the shade of a tent. The hsien chang arrived there in state on a magnificent horse furnished With fine Tibetan saddle-rug and a whole carillon of bells. If his silken i-shang at the yamen had been the last word in elegance, what could ove say of his uniform? I: was simply a non plus ultra of distinetion. And so he heartily advanced amid a sweet jingling' of bells with outstretched hand to greet us in Western fashion, accompanied by his wife, also in uniform, and his quite attractive sons of whom he wes rdinately proud, After a few days in Kantzu we left for the long stages to Taofu. At first the plain was retraversed in an easterly direction. The Kawalujih gleamed in the sunshine to the south. Thousands of little rats with practically no tails scampered before our horses. Once again we had a pass day For three days the route led up the gorge. The first night we found Foreign) and individual turns naval and civilian songsters and others. The Committe of 16 loca! Americans, were ably assisted by their wives and U.S. naval officer friends and men and all worked tremendously hard to achieve the success the affair most
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