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about forty li, finally reaching a large village 
named T’ien-ch’éng-ts’un,; where we put up at a 
comfortable inn. 
From this point westward to Yang-kao we 
traversed the same road as on our outward journey. 
At Fén-chéng we received word that Yang-kao 
had just been looted by mutinous troops. This 
made us somewhat anxious, but two days later, 
when we reached that town, we found that order 
had been restored, though all the tradespeople 
had been cleaned out, several streets burnt, and 
$12,000! looted from the grain merchants. 
As I wished to examine more carefully the geo- 
logy of the country along the Chang-sui Extension 
line, I sent Warrington on by rail with our outfit, 
while I took the three ponies and traversed the 
distance between Yang-kao and Kalgan by road. 
During this journey, which took three days, we 
experienced very bad weather indeed. Several 
severe hailstorms, followed by heavy rain, caused 
the Nan-yang Ho to swell, flooding the valley so 
that we could only proceed along the railway 
embankment. In one place where we were taking 
shelter under a railway arch, the hailstones, 
ranging in size from marbles to pigeons’ eggs, lay 
from three to six inches deep, giving the effect of a 
heavy fall of snow. : 
1 Owing to this town being the temporary terminus of the 
newly-opened Chang-sui Extension Line, an extensive trade 
in grain had sprung up, to carry on which the merchants had 
large sums of ready money in hand.—A. de C. S. 
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