CHAPTER V 
JOURNEY TO’ K’UEI-HUA-CH’ENG: THE 
TAI HAI 
RRIVED at Kalgan, we were delayed some 
days, owing to the usual bother in hiring 
carts. It happened that Brodie and Schréder 
had been ordered to proceed to K’uei-hua-ch’éng 
on business, so we decided to travel together. 
Carts were finally secured and sent on to Yang- 
kao, the present terminus of the Chang-sui Ex- 
tension of the Peking-Kalgan Railway. 
On April 29 we took train at Kalgan, and, 
after about six hours’ journey, reached Yang-kao, 
where we found our carts awaiting us. The 
Chang-sui Extension line runs in a general south- 
westerly direction from. Kalgan, and is intended 
ultimately to extend as far as K’uei-hua-ch’éng, 
and the Yellow River, probably at He-k’ou. 
From here it is intended to have a steamboat 
service to Lan-chou Fu. Already a light-draught, 
stern-wheel steamer has been built and launched 
upon this section of the river. If this enterprise 
succeeds, as it should do, the long journey from 
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