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give her a dose of chlorodyne, wliicli I thought might 

 do her good. They both appeared to be very grateful 

 for the medicine. In the evening Ni-tou was reached. 



July 25. — After two hours' march, I left the road 

 by which I had travelled before, and turning to the 

 left passed up a fine open valley and through highly 

 cultivated land. The surface was rolling, the soil 

 evidently very fertile and of a red colour, with granite 

 boulders cropping up in places. Much Indian corn 

 was growing, and clumps of walnut trees were plentiful. 

 The road was gradually ascending, and the summit of a 

 ridge 6,500 feet above the sea was reached at 10 a.m. 

 Descending at first l)y a road that was trying in places, 

 the village of Chili-pan-kow was reached and a short 

 halt made. Then passing through Chih-pan-kow and 

 Fung-ya-ping, both villages, the road ascended again 

 till a second ridge was reached, called San-yan-kwan, 

 7,350 feet above the sea. From here I descended to 

 Yo-so-po (6,250 feet), where I intended to stay the night. 

 Chin-chi-hsien is seen from here, being about three miles 

 off in the valley. I believe that this route has never 

 been taken before by a European. 



I shot a bird here that I had never seen in China 

 before ; it was black, with breast and rump of an intense 

 scarlet. During the day I passed coolies carrying tea 

 from Ya-chow-fu to Ta-tsien-lu. This is a shorter but 



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