Chap. XI. 
START FOR WOO-E-SHAN. 
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on. As soon as we were clear of th^ town the road 
seemed entirely different from that which we had been 
travelling on before. The fact is, we had left the great 
tea highway, — that had ended at the town we just 
passed. Our road was now more narrow and less 
frequented. The travellers in chairs, the coolies with 
tea-chests on their shoulders, and all that motley band 
which we had seen on our journey across the mountains, 
had disappeared, and we were now journeying alone. 
