TIBETAN PILGRIM 169 
The temples are very clean, and travellers are, as arule, 
permitted to sleep in them on payment of a small sum. 
The priests generally are very civil and communica- 
tive. Wan-nien-tze itself is buried in the forest, but 
on the road up many beautiful views are obtained. 
The slopes of the mountain are clothed with pines in 
the upper parts, and lower down with evergreen trees 
of many varieties, several species of flowering currant 
(Ribes) growing in profusion underneath. Here and 
there a view is obtained from the head of a deep 
ravine, and the beauty of the scene impresses itself 
deeply on one’s memory. 
At a temple close by I left four collectors with in- 
structions to work the whole locality, and, later on, to 
examine the mountain thoroughly up to the summit. 
I found here a Tibetan whom I had met at Ta-tsien-lu 
last year, and who had come with his wife and two 
children to worship. The Chinese treat the Tibetans 
very badly, and will not permit them to use the temples 
to live in, but only allow them to worship there. This 
man, therefore, after his long journey, had to camp out 
with his family on the side of the mountain. He was 
very intelligent, and I had some conversation with him 
through an interpreter. 
On April 12 I started for the summit, the road, 
generally being very winding and steep and covered 
