CHAPTER XIV 
MOUNT OMEI 
Prepare to leave Ta-tsien-lu—Take charge of Prince Henri’s collection— 
Collectors left behind—Departure—Village destroyed by landslip— 
Lu-ting-chiao—Sick woman—New road—Pass Chih-pan-kow, Fung- 
ya-ping and San-yan-kwan—Arrive at Yo-so-po—Tai-hsiang-ling- 
kwan Pass—Huang-ni-po—Shih-chia-chiao—Ya-chow-fu—Orders to 
travel by Hung-ya-hsien—Heavy rain—Robbery at Tsi-ho-kia— 
Hung-ya-hsien—Landlord in trouble—Kia-kiang—Kia-ting-fu—De- 
part for Oméi-shan—Wan-nien-ssu—Summit of Mount Oméi—Glory 
of Buddha—Temples easily destroyed by fire—Quantity of bronze on 
mountain—Iron suspension bridges. 
July 18.—Finding that I could do nothing more in 
Ta-tsien-lu, as my movements were so hampered by the 
mandarin, who, though everything was now perfectly 
quiet, refused to allow me to return to my log cabin, I 
determined to leave and make a stay on Mount Oméi, 
where I was anxious to see how my men were getting’ 
on. Prince Henri of Orleans had determined to return 
by way of Yunnan to Hanoi, and as by this route he 
would have greater difficulty in transporting his collec- 
tion of natural history specimens than by the river 
route to Shanghai, he asked me to take charge of them 
as far as Hankow, at which place he wished them given 
