222 TBOUBLE AT MOU-PIN 



ness, instead of being kept inshore, had been carried 

 out into the main stream of the Min Eiver, and 

 were in danger of being swept down beyond the place 

 where my boat was anchored. By dint of hard work 

 they were got inshore again, luckily above her, and 

 she was soon found. On getting on board I found J\Ir. 

 Kricheldorif, who had arrived from Mou-pin on Sunda)'. 

 He reported having had great difficulty with the natives, 

 who stole his tent and interfered so much with his col- 

 lectors that he was compelled to abandon the higher 

 and more promising collecting grounds and to take 

 up his residence in a house in the village. The con- 

 sequence was, that the collection he brought back was 

 anything but what I had expected, and I was much 

 disappointed. 



I was now fully employed in arranging and packing 

 the collections already made, hoping to get them out of 

 the way before the collectors I had left behind in Tibet 

 and Ta-tsien-lu should come in with their treasures. 

 A few days after my arrival I received a letter in Chinese 

 from Ta-tsien-lu, complaining of the bad conduct of one 

 of my collectors at Pu-tzu-fong towards a Tibetan girl, 

 and which had so preyed upon her mind that she had 

 hanged herself. Although I greatly deplored the circum- 

 stance, for which I was in no way responsible, I was 

 very glad to have left the neighbourhood before it 



