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ravine to nearly the point on the other side to which it 

 entered. This is only mentioned to show what a long 

 distance has to be traversed in many cases when the 

 actual advance is very small. I saw several young wild 

 pigs during the day, but no old ones. 



Huang-mu-chang was my halting place for the 

 night, when I again met Pere Martin and had a hearty 

 welcome from him and an invitation to stay at his 

 house. He has a nice place with a good garden, in 

 which are many familiar flowers, such as sweet william, 

 cockscombs, and many other things, the seeds of which 

 have been sent him from France. In the kitchen 

 garden also he has vegetables, such as we are accus- 

 tomed to at home, and is gradually spreading the 

 cultivation of such of them as thrive well among the 

 Chinese. 



I parted from Pere Martin the next morning 

 (June 27) at 9 o'clock, and travelling as usual through 

 a very mountainous region reached a market village 

 called Chin-ki-za at 5.30 p.m., having walked sixty li 

 from Huang-mu-chang. This was a very hard day's 

 work, the roads as usual being very bad, and I think 

 that the poorness of the food upon which we had lived 

 was beginning to tell upon Mr. KricheldorfT and myself. 

 At this place the soldiers or runners left me in order 

 to report themselves at the Yamen of Ching-chi-hsien,. 



