14 A, 8. Bickmpre—Journey through China. 
and one military Mandarin and from two to four soldiers 
besides : 
that previously noticed. Highty-four li below Kiyang, at the. 
village of Pin-cha-bu, we passed a hill of limestone interstrati- 
Jied with coal. They were quarrying the lime rock and using — 
the coal obtained at the same time to burn it to lime. The dip 
of these strata is 40° to the north. A little farther in that 
direction came red sandstone with a similar dip of 15° to 20°. _ 
Sept. 16th, stopped for the night in a little village 165 li 
above Hangchau. As we arrived after dark no one saw me and 
take a walk along the front street. But he only shrugged his 
shoulders, shook his head in an ominous manner and said, 
“they are all the worst of ruffians there !” 
About ten o’clock a loud talking and disputing began on the 
kK near us and soon one man commenced. screaming ant 
an out by us into the middle of the stream, their 
victim all this time groaning more and more feebly and evi- 
dently dying. My servant who was on the watch then informe 
me is man was a merchant and belonged to another vil- 
lage and was taking some money to Hangchau, and when the 
people there robbed him and he shouted out for the police, they 
stabbed him and were finishing their work by sinking him in the 
