192 HEAVY SNOW-STOEM 



from under the stones. Next day I collected a few 

 butterflies. 



Jime 3. — I took a walk of about twenty-five li to the 

 southward. The path led through a forest of magnifi- 

 cent pine trees as straight as an arrow, many being- 

 three feet in diameter. They would make splendid 

 timber if there was any use for it in the place where it 

 grows, but there are no roads or means of transporting 

 such large trunks. In places the rhododendrons were 

 very beautiful, and grow larger than at the higher 

 elevations. Oak trees, several species of beech, larch, 

 limes, walnut, stunted bamboo, and many evergreens 

 are also plentiful. The bark of the pines was covered 

 with lichen and ferns. I returned to camp in the 

 evening. 



June 5. — A heavy snow-storm and bitterly cold, all 

 the bloom being cut ofi" the rhododendrons. Eeally 

 terrible weather, and like a Canadian winter. In the 

 evenincc there was a foot of snow on the ground. A 

 coolie came in during the day with the news that the 

 road to Ta-tsien-lu was blocked with snow, and that the 

 people at Mo-si-mien, having heard from the medicine 

 collectors that there was a foreigner residing in the 

 district, attributed the severe weather to his presence. 

 They being much lower down the valley had heavy 

 sleet-storms instead of snow. 



