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CHAPTER XIV 



MOUIS'T OMEI 



Prepare to leave Ta-tslen-lu — Take charge of Pi'ince Henri's collection — 

 Collectors left behind — Departure — Village destroyed by landslip — 

 Lu-ting-chiao — Sick woman — New road — Pass Chih-pan-kow, Fung- 

 ya-j)ing and San-yan-kwan — Arrive at Yo-so-po — Tai-hsiang-ling- 

 kwan Pass — Hiiang-ni-po — Shih-chia-chiao — ^Ya-chow-fa — Orders to 

 travel by Hung-ya-hsien — Heavy rain — Eobbery at Tsi-ho-kia — 

 Hung-ya-hsien — Landlord in trouble — Kia-kiang — Kia-ting-fu — De- 

 part for Omei-shan — Wan-nien-ssu — Summit of Mount Omei — Glory 

 of Buddha — Temples easily destroyed by fire — Quantity of bronze on 

 mountain — Iron suspension bridges. 



July 18. — Finding that I could do nothing more in 

 Ta-tsien-lu, as my movements were so hampered by the 

 mandarin, who, though everything was now perfectly 

 quiet, refused to allow me to return to my log cabin, I 

 determined to leave and make a stay on Mount Omei, 

 where I was anxious to see how my men were getting 

 on. Prince Henri of Orleans had determined to return 

 by way of Yunnan to Hanoi, and as by this route he 

 would have greater difficulty in transporting his collec- 

 tion of natural history specimens than by the river 

 route to Shanghai, he asked me to take charge of them 

 as far as Hankow, at which place he wished them given 



