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THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF KWEICHOW 



We visited a Buddhist monastery, through which we 

 passed into a stalactite cavern where by dint of a little 

 human assistance the stalactites had been transformed into 

 worshipable figures. A cascade just outside springs out of 

 the ground, this is a curious feature of many of the rivulets 

 in Kweichow, they suddenly appear out of the ground and 

 equally suddenly disappear. At one point I heard a loud 

 roaring noise, and on enquiry found that it was the sound of 

 a stream suddenly plunging into the bowels of the earth. 

 Next dav we visited another cavern, which has a sub- 



