
          795.

piece of wood.  It looked very much like one of the same kind of birds I had
watched just a few moments before. The poor little thing did not seem to
be injured, it must have been sick & died there.  We now hurried onward
and before long we were at A.  We found Mr. J. more communicative.
He spoke about the "Cubians" and about the Chinese.  He said that a
certain man who he knew had been at "Beekin" their capital city, and
told him that the city just swarmed with people.  The women were lying on
the steps, half-dressed.  He also spoke about their little feet.  On account
of the country being so over populated and also on account of the smallness
of the women's feet, he readily believed that the women have children
every 6 months.  He wished also to tell us about the causes of eclipses
but we were in a hurry so bade him good-bye.  We got to A. about
half past eleven.  Here we were surprised by finding Forsythia
suspensa in bloom.  We crossed the river and went to the
Gentian Hills.  Only a few plants are yet in bloom. We dug
up two of the plants carefully to transplant at our new place.
At the new dam we found that they were dumping dirt into the
water near the stone work.  Later we learned that a leak had
been discovered, no doubt they were trying to mend it.  When we
reached the spot where we had last transplanted, we found our
        