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from the hills, and they found a ready sale, as the Chinese eat 

 the blossom raw. The tribesmen, we were told, do not live 

 among the Chinese, but come to the markets from the isola- 

 tion of their mountain haunts. We were specially anxious 

 to see as many as possible, so we had written in advance, 

 and the missionaries kindly summoned them to special 

 meetings at the two main centres of their work in this part 

 of the province, and we saw altogether over a hundred men, 

 women and children in the one and over two hundred in 

 the other, belonging to various tribes. 



The first important town to which we came was- 

 Anshunfu — very picturesque, with its bridged waterways, 

 carved stone parapets and overhanging trees. Mr. Slichter 



