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ravine to nearly the point on the other side to which it 
entered. This is only mentioned to show what a long 
distance has to be traversed in many cases when the 
actual advance is very small, I saw several young wild 
pigs during the day, but no old ones. 
Huang-mu-chang was my halting place for the 
night, when I again met Pere Martin and had a hearty 
welcome from him and an invitation to stay at his. 
house. He has a nice place with a good garden, in 
which are many familiar flowers, such as sweet william,,. 
cockscombs, and many other things, the seeds of which 
have been sent him from France. In the kitchen 
garden also he has vegetables, such as we are accus- 
tomed to at home, and is gradually spreading the 
cultivation of such of them as thrive well among the 
Chinese. 
I parted from Pere Martin the next morning 
(June 27) at 9 o’clock, and travelling as usual through 
a very mountainous region reached a market village 
called Chin-ki-za at 5.30 p., having walked sixty li 
from Huang-mu-chang. This was a very hard day’s 
work, the roads as usual being very bad, and I think 
that the poorness of the food upon which we had lived 
was beginning to tell upon Mr. Kricheldorff and myself. 
At this place the soldiers or runners left me in order 
to report themselves at the Yamen of Ching-chi-hsien,, 
