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my men b\' and by. At about 4 p.m. T saw from the- 

 window of my room several antelopes on a narrow 

 ledge of the precipice, and hardly twenty yards away. 

 My rifle was unfortunately with the coolies in the other 

 inn, but I immediately hurried after it, and succeeded 

 in getting a shot which secured one. This caused great 

 excitement in the village, and two men swam across to 

 fetch it. It was very lucky, and gave us a supply of 

 meat for a couple of days, making a most agreeable 

 change in our diet from the everlasting rice, Indian cora 

 cakes and eggs, with sometimes, but not often, a fowl. 



3Iay 25. — ^Left at 6 a.m. The road led to the 

 east of a spur, and was partly on the bank of a tribu- 

 tary of the Tung Eiver, through the villages of Nan-mu- 

 yuan and Li-mien-tien, and took me to Kuei-hua-chang,. 

 where I stayed the night, being now" only fifteen li 

 from my destination at Ta-tien-chih. The weather was- 

 cloudy, and a mountainous region was passed through 

 with very trying paths. 



May 26. — ^Left at 7 a.m., and arrived at Ta-tien- 

 chih at 11. Here I found Pere Joseph Martin on a 

 visit to his converts, his headquarters being at Huang- 

 mu-chang about seventy li further on. He had not seen 

 a European since Baber, eleven years ago, and was kind 

 enough to lend me the old mission house to live in. I 

 appreciated this very much, as it was greatly superior 



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