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line of perpetual snow. About here is a great place 

 for the medicine collectors, and I found a fine species of 

 wild onion of good flavour growing in moist ground. 

 There were also many lilies of various species, but none 

 in bloom. I took some photographs from this place. 



One night I noticed that the tent was leaking through 

 the drip from a pine tree falling on it, and I told a 

 coolie to cut it down and to be sure to have a rope 

 made fast to clear it of the tent in its fall. He cut the 

 tree down but took no precaution, the consequence 

 being that it fell right across the ridge pole, and had it 

 not been for a tree on the other side, against which it 

 fell, everything in the tent must have been smashed. 

 As it was, a good deal of damage was done ; but I only 

 mention this to show how careless these people are. 



On May 23 I received a letter from Father Soulie, 

 telling me that two of my collectors had come in from 

 Wa-ssu-kou, and were in want of more collecting boxes 

 ^nd a larger cyanide bottle. I was, therefore, obliged 

 to return to Ta-tsien-lu to see to their requirements. 

 Crossing the pass, the weather being fine and clear, 

 splendid views were obtained both to the south, over 

 the forest-clad valley as far as the eye could reach 

 b)eyond Mo-si-mien, and to the north, as far as the snow- 

 clad mountains beyond Ta-tsien-lu. To the left was a 

 -conical-shaped mountain covered with snow — a most 



