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mountainside at a great rate so liat my nókin essort conltat keep up with ine, Got to sho bottom about 9.30 pm, Hare now put up at a temple at the foothills
The following interesting arogant of mountain exploration in Busan is written by Thursday, 19th June, 8 p.m.-By light of a correspondent of the N.-C. Dudly Newsa ---- candle, in dirty, mud-floored roots, in a email.
Rengehou, 2nd June. Recognising the musty temple, top of a mountain, I started from importants of finding a cool resort from the the temple at the base of the Nanyo mountain sommer hent, whither tired and physically | about 11 mo, having been detained by heary depressed workers in Central and Southern min. hode the same pony and took a new zoud, Hunan might repair, and feeling especially the which after some miles of ravantering between importance of opening a way of retreat, in paddy-felde, gradually began to ascend between. case a foreigner should be taken seriously ill in the bills. The pony scrambled ou nobly for a the teeming, silfling heat of a Chinese e Rammer, time, but pegged out before very long, so I had Chinese city, when the molt urgent indica: to walk. It soon became a fearful tradge, and tion is at ones to remove the patient, to a parer there was a good deal of the chewing of the end and cooler atmosphore, I made up my mind tour bitterness na we toiled upwards. The road make a repid exploration of the high mountains followed a very due dashing stream all the way which are situated some ten or twelve miles to ug, with fine waterfalls tumbling over the rocks. Now westward of Hengshan, and known as the Tashilsaliaronad, clothed in bamboos, etc., make Moshan, and among the Chinese a very a very beautiful glen. At last we got o'er the famous and sacred range.
saddle of the range, and then began a down- HAND-PAINTED DE:SEKT SET, OLD I have some back from my excursion, feeling ward sramble on the other side. After a while, DRESDEN VASE (Hand-Painted), BRASS that there is a future for tiess bills as a we got to a temple, surrounded by beautiful. and BRONZE VASES and ORNAMENTS, Bavatorium for foreigners, but fesling also that trees and bamboos, and quite romantic for BLACKWOOD · WAKE, TIENTSIN a lot of work will have to be done afore that situation. I rested here, and drank hatire tek CARPETS and RUGS, PAINTINGS and can be accomplished. I cannot see how there as usual, and then went on a little farther dowa ENGRAVINGS, AMERICAN SIDE could be any immediate oecapation that would the mountain site, following a fine stream and BOARD and TABLES, TEAKWOOD be consistent with health and comfort. The under lovely frees, till we got to the place OVERMANTEL and WARDROBES with only dwellings on the mountains are the where I write this, and where I am going to BEVELLED GLASS, BOOK-SHELF. Buddhist temples, and of these there are many, pass the night. It is a bosutiful spot and coul NAPERY CUTLERY and CROCKERY but they are so damp and dark and thy as to and might do well for a holiday as far as situs WARF PANTRY and FITCHEN RE be beyond adaptation ist the healthy andtion and scenery go, but it has its drawbacks. QUISITES as usual;
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only so at such an expense as to make it not and all are very poor tuuble-down placor, sad worth white. I found the flours were of damp, could hardly be adapted to foreigu vas. Ries often wet mud; the roofs loaky; the walls voy is cultivated in small terraces, oven at this high dirty; the windows usually of tatter d paper, nititude, the water from the fields draining into and vertin rife. The central part of each the central stream, and thereby poltalling it. temple, too. was taken up by the large git Another drawback that obtains under the idols, before and around which at laterals present condition of things is the necessity of both day and night, is kept up the eyer. having to put up with a guard of Chinese lasting beating of the gange, and the braves always hanging around and wateuing incantations of the priests Thin, as I found your overy actin Am feling more and more that these hills do not offer that promise that by experience, is anything but conducive to undisturbed slumbers.
I had hoped to find in them-that is I mean, for the prasent, and the immediate futuro. I reached here faint and weary; got some food about 7 p.m. (baving had nothing at all to cat since breakfast) and am now about to turn in
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Monday, 16th JuneIn a small native boat, bound for Hengahan. Loft Hongebou at 4 p.m., and now fast slipping down river. Am off to explore the Nangohshan, my objent being to find out the posibilities of the place as a health resort and a place of refuge from the heat in Cusse of sickness. In a case of emergency, Kuling would be out of the question. The distance being too great, and the first part of the jourusy, from these regions at any rate, having to bi undertaken in the ordinary native bost with all that that means.
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Friday, 29th Juno-It was raining hard on the hilltop this morning and officials and everyone did not at all like the idea of going down in the rain, and tried to persuade me a to go I said I must get to Hengshan that day and started off, and they followed. It was hard work coming down the hill, with the dashing, rain and the road converted into a stream, but we got down at last, and after the fow miles of plain again reached the town of Nanyo About 3.30 p.m. we were off again, and Tuesday, 17th June.Reached Hongshan at 5 reached Hongshan shout e'clock. We must a.m., and got ashore. Here there was consider. reach Hengchon to-morrow,
GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE CHEONG SHING able deloy, for the officials were most enrions Saturday night-Got in at last after against FIRE at Current Rates. that I should not go without an escort. It tradge of 30 odd miles along an exforsbie road, seems that the country people are a little dis swamped in parts by the recent rain and in turbed, and I had heard that certain ronghs in parts thick with and. We started at 7 0.0, the neighbourhood of the hills had lately been and got in at 7.3 p.m., and ward thus 124 hours practising Buzer antics. However this may he,on the road. I was pretty well done up, but two small officials and ten soldiers were sent to glad to have accomplished my mission. I feet escort mo. A chair was provided for me which that much will yet have to be done before a us it happened I hardly used at all. One official sanatorium san be established on these bille, ESSONS in ENGLISH LANGUAGE of the other rude his pony. A great deal more exploring will have to be By 10am. we got off and made a good journey done to find the best locality. The mountain. by in European.' Address, stating Terms, to-----
Boross the plain through some 10 or 12 miles of are very high, I should judge about the same beautifully-rich and varied country, green with highs as the Kaling menatame, and the range trees, but the bolda of young rica. I rode part very much more extensive, and I feel sure that of the way on the official's pony nad he used my there must be suitable valleys on the monothio. chair. About 2 o'clock we arrived at the town of tops such as we have at Kuling, and if only the Naugah at the foot of the mountains. Here I time could be spared to thoroughly explore the had a jangle with the officials who did not wish range. me to attempt the mountain that day, but I was determined to push on and they gave in. In spite of thle and several such like contests with the officals, we got on very well together and on the whole I found them to be very pleasant and intelligent young follows. We got of about 3 o'clock and the ascent of the mountain began almost immediately. A chair was out for me, but I did not use it either to go upor to come down. Indeed the ascent was so steep that no one used chairs, or very little,"
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which line the whole way up. We had dose good deal more than half the mountain, so retired, feeling satisfied that the back of thự work had been broken. The old priest turned out and let us have bis room, for which I felt
very grateful, though it was a filthy place. By the use of oil-cloth, Insect powder, and mosquito net, however, I passed a good night-disturbed only by the fifol tom-ton, sad the incantations of the priest, which broke the stillness of a lovely moon-lit night on the mountains.
Wednesday, 19th June-We reached the top of the bill about 10 am. Had intended to stay up here a day or two, but the temple is quite unlivable being infested by a disgnating insect emitting a peculiarly horrid nad sickening smell, incomeh that one is turned against his food. The creature is of a shield shape, from oue-half to three-quarters of an inch long, end- grawis about like a beetle. I have so this creature in Kaling in ones and twos, but in this temple they are all over the place, piled thick on each other on the walls and window frames, thousands and myriads of them. Even the Chinese soldiers and others who have come
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up with me, cannot stand the smell (though one generally hears the expression that the Chinese have no nomes, though the forty priests who live in the temple are evidently quite used to the smell and do not appear to notice if So I shall first try to swallow MR
some tifin and be off down the hill again: this afternoon. I now know what the mountaie is like, and quite see that for several rescous this mountains font of the question as a health resort; for the temples, rocking damp and full of priests
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converted into decent quarters where a Euro Fean, and especially a sick European, could live. But even if one could, build one's own bangalow straightaway there is one thing that condemne the bill, and that is that during the summer mouths, and especially the eighth month, the people come up from the plain in thousands and tens of thousands to worship the idols in
the temples, return thanks for blessings supposed to have been due to their influence, and berevol favours at their hands. That is the meaning 1217 of the flus road leading from foot to sun- mit of this famous mountalu, One of thự officinis tells me that during the eighth month the whole roud is just packed with the pilgrims who have come from all parts. They worship before enoli idol, all the way up, passing on from tempio lo temple. A foreigner on the moutain at such a season would have a lively time, I imagine, But perhaps there are other hills that would serve the purpose; this is but one bill out of a big range, To-morrow I will try ia a different direction. The mountain tops are now so invested in alouds that I cannot get this magnificent view of the range and of the sur. rounding country that I am sure I would other. 719-wise have had. Later I pounded down the
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CHINA AND JAPAN
-FOR. 1902.
WITH ALPHABETICAL LIST.
70 PAGES. BOUND IN CLOTH AND LETTERED, 1.
On Sale ut M KELLY & WALSH, D., Hongkong Mesra, W. BEEWEE & Co., Hongkong sua
Shanghai and Yokohams; Shanghai
Messrs., A. &. WATSON & Co., Amoy; Messre. A. S. WATSON & Co, Foochow The
"DANY TEERS OFFICE, Hongkong, and at the London Offlue: 181, Fleet Street. Hongkong. 26th November 19014 (80 CARBOLINEUM-AVENABIUS. USED FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
IN CASES OF ABOUT.
450
LBS. NET:
TRADE
MARK
ENARIUS
AVENA
PROLINEUM
IN TINT
OF 45 LBS.
Throughly reliable preservative for Wood
por sunt, discount on orders of 1,000 and over. for the abort Rot, and Dampresa
THE Undersigned, having been appointed and Stone against White Ants, Decay, Fungus Apply com
WM, BCDMIDT & CO.,
Gunmakers,
CODZ.
1830
Hongkong. 3rd July, 182
Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS
15 lat emirent rates.
P. DEMATRE & CO.
Hongkong, 7th February, 1801
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LUTGENS, FINSTMANN & CO.,
Sale Agents for Chine.
FISIO Hongkong, lat July, 1903