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The carter afterwards told us, as he sat drying 
himself over the stove, that he had driven carts 
to and fro across this creek bed all his life and 
had never known it like this before. 
We struck camp next day with a view to finding 
safer camping ground, but in crossing the main 
stream experienced the misfortune of having our 
cart capsize. Everything was soaked, and it was 
with difficulty that we saved several articles, 
which were being swept away on the flood. This 
catastrophe necessitated our returning to Lama 
Miao, where we put up at an inn and managed to 
get our things dry. Unfortunately a whole set of 
photographs of the races and scenes at the devil 
dance was ruined. 
Next day, July 30, we left the vicinity, striking 
due west towards some unusually high hills. The 
heavy rains, as usual, had damaged the roads, 
so that we experienced great difficulty in climbing 
the slopes of the hills. Finally we pitched camp 
in a green pasture near the top of the divide. Here 
there was an unusual amount of vegetation, and 
‘we were surprised to find roe-deer in the district. 
A badger was also seen, besides some partridges. 
This was the highest point we reached on the whole 
journey, the top of the divide being about 5,000 
feet above sea level and 1,000 feet above Lama 
Miao. 
The following day we descended once more on 
to rolling grasslands, reaching by mid-afternoon 
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