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CARAVAN PASSING THROUGH A VALLEY WHERE FORMERLY PROSPEROUS PEASANTS USED TO 

 LIVE, WHEN THE MOUNTAINS WERE STILL FORESTED 



Locality! Near the Wu.-t'aushan, Shan,-si, China. The Floods Have Carried Destruction All Over the Land, and 



Its Aspect Is Like a Stony Desert. April 14, 1907 



A PEBBLY RIVER BED IN SOUTH MANCHURIA 



Locality: Near Fong huang sheng, South Manchuria. The formerly big stream has dried up, on account of the 

 climate having become more arid, since the destruction of the forests on the mountainsides. Only some scrub 

 wood is left which will disappear within the next forty or fifty years. June 11 , 1906 



