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of the lowban, as on the former visit ; and as she 

 was now varnished brown Hke all the native craft, 

 instead of being painted white, she attracted little or 

 no attention and there was no troul)le given by the 

 authorities. 



On April 10, having everything prepared for a stay 

 at Ta-tsien-lu, my boxes, &c., making loads for thirty- 

 five coolies, I sent them ofi* with orders to wait for me 

 at Kia-kiang, as I intended to visit Mount Omei, it 

 being but little out of the way. I left Kia-ting-fu on 

 the same day, and slept that night at Omei-hsien. This 

 place supplies all the priests living on Mount Omei 

 with food, &c., and during the winter large supplies 

 have to be laid in by them, as the road up the moun- 

 tain is blocked with snow and ice. I noticed skins 

 of a species of armadillo exposed for sale in the 

 shops here. 



The next day I proceeded to Wan-nien-tze, situated 

 on the mountain at an elevation of o,500 feet, the road 

 consisting largely of series of stairs, and many temples 

 were passed. The name signifies ' the temple of 10,000 

 years.' There are many fine images in the temples 

 about here, but they are nearly all much too dark to 

 take a photograph in. In one, however, I managed to 

 get an excellent negative of a very large Buddha made 

 of clay and gilt. In a temple close b}^ which is entered 



