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The temples are very clean, and travellers are, as a rule, 

 permitted to sleep in them on payment of a small sum. 

 The priests generally are very civil and communica- 

 tive. Wan-nien-tze itself is buried in the forest, but 

 on the road up many beautiful views are obtained. 

 The slopes of the mountain are clothed with pines in 

 the upper parts, and lower down with evergreen trees 

 of many varieties, several species of flowering currant 

 (Ribes) growing in profusion underneath. Here and 

 there a view is obtained from the head of a deep 

 ravine, and the beauty of the scene impresses itself 

 deeply on one's memory. 



At a temple close by I left four collectors with in- 

 structions to work the whole locality, and, later on, to 

 examine the mountain thoroughly up to the summit. 



I found here a Tibetan whom I had met at Ta-tsien-lu 

 last year, and who had come with his wife and two 

 children to worship. The Chinese treat the Tibetans 

 ver}^ badly, and will not permit them to use the temples 

 to live in, but only allow them to worship there. This 

 man, therefore, after his long journey, had to camp out 

 with his family on the side of the mountain. He was 

 very intelligent, and I had some conversation with him 

 through an interpreter. 



On April 12 I started for the summit, the road, 

 generally being very winding and steep and covered 



