"Dr. Agnew arrived in the city from Chengtu over one week ago. Wisely he is retaining his chair-coolies to carry him back as the chair-shops in Tachienlu are now asking a ransom for chairmen. Coming along the road other travellers going in the opposite direction offered Dr. Agnew's chair-The|men $5 per day if they would carry them back to Yachow.
When Peter Goullart left some tim ago for Yachow the chairmen demanded $5.
A box of miserable matches, one of which in every tve gives you satisfaction, costs'15 cents. A package of six candles, very thin and very weak, is sold for $4. Sugar—and people swear there is corn meal in it—is now being sold at $260 5 catty. We have two sources of salt—one is in the Land of the Lamas and the other in the Land of Sinim. Chinese salt is $150 per catty and the Tibetan salt, plus a lot of tough, yak hair is only $1. Transportation course makes all the difference. laid up. And according to the "Daily Telegraph" 800,000, cars have been scrapped or laid up since August. Whether Sir John Simon might not have got even more than £34 millions by lowering the tax say to £1 per horse-power as he was begged to do, and thus have kept the 800,000 on the road is a nice sum in arithmetic for someone else to work out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.