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A HAINAN TRAVELOGUE
A BEAUTIFUL AND FERTILE ISLAND
PRIMITIVE TRIBES WHO KEPT THE REDS AT BAY
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Kachek, April 1st.
ous large
BUS CONDUCTOR FINED
Gave False Tickets to Passengers
'bus
For a nice
AFTERNOON TEA
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Come to the
A has conductor in the employ of EXCELSIOR RESTAURANT
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Mr. R. A. Wadeson prosecuted an behalf of the Company, and Mr. C. Y. Kwan defended.
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villaga We crossed A trip into the mountainous in river by boat at Tao-sae, where lone Hainanese trader and terior of Hainan, even if only in a
According to the prosecution, the Deng-ang and Loh-hoe districts and his ten-year-old son live in a rude not clear to the Five Finger Moun- shack, run the ferry, and ship logs defendant gavo two passengers, in tains, is an interesting experience. and betelnut down river to Tur exchange of their fares, tickets Your correspondent recently spent fou and thence to Kachek. At this which had already been used instead eighteen days there, going with the sinek I saw u duster, made not off those which should have been Kuchek feathers but of a fox tail, black issued for that particular journey. Chinese pastor of the Church, several evangelists and with five white rings around it, und | He was caught in the act by a Euro- Biblo women and a handy-man useful as well as ornamental as it pean police officer who
a piece of passenger in the 'bus at the time. was stuck firmly on cock, a party of ten in all, on a
The defence, however, contended, tour of some of the Christian Miao bamboo for a handle. I was inter- villages. Our baggngo was packed ested to see real violets growing on that the tickets were not given by the defendant, but were produced in round wicker road baskets with some of the grassy uplands of this
basket weighing region, the only place in Hainan by the passengers themselves. The covers, no over thirty cattion. A box of where I have ever seen them being tickets alleged to have been given Scripture portions and hymnbooks here or near Lin-mai. They are by the defendant were actually those and a box of standard drugs were mther small and with rather sharp- that had been used by the passengers taken along for, sale. As we startly painted leaves, but unmistakably themselves on other journeys, and it od from Kachck on the 24th of violets, with small flowers of a deep had been stated by an inspector of the company, that passengers, par ticularly women, usually kept old February w dared not go without colour. heavy bedding and clothing, in spite of the warm weather then
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We also saw a number of betel nut groves on this stage of our trip but a few days later passed through one of the most extensive and oth we were thankful for all we beautiful graves 1 have ever seen, had with us. Fortunately we were said to have over ten thousand not on the road on rainy days ex-
trees. Gangs of men were cutting cept for one short trip, and so the
were and there rivers were not too high to be ford-out the undergrowth in this grove lovely vistas ed ensily.
through the aisles of slender trees, The betelnut tree begins to bear seven or eight years, alter planting and sanietimes bears until forty years old, though twenty years of production is perhaps an average." The nuts are gathered and dried in on the plantations, orude ovens wrapped in packages covered with coarse mats, and shipped by river or by road to markets that trans ship to Boihow, and they are ex ported in large quantities.
two
The first stage of the trip was made by car, fifty miles to the west and slightly south of Kachek to the Chinese market of Au-fo, on the édge of the mountains. Only a few tars make the trip over this road, and we engaged past ge in a Chevrolet Six truck, which had boards across three or the back as" seats for passen. gers, and had freight and our baggage piled in behind, and tied promiscuously over the engine, the sides and the rear. The road follows the uplands where possible, and has adequate causeways, cul- verts and bridges, but there are some steep grades and sharp curves that make it bad in wet weather.
The scenery is very pretty, and one part of the road goes through pine-tree belt, one of the rare places on the island where such trees are found outside the Five Finger Mountain country.
On the second days' trip we also passed some Haku villages, eight of which are grouped fairly close together. These particular Hakas are recent arrivals in Hainan, hav ing come within the past two or three years. The men came to the island as soldiers, left the anny, and are. bringing their families down from Kwangsi
A Nomadic People.
The Mino are essentially a nomadic people, clearing the forest, The fare from Kachek to Ai-fu planting their upland rice in the 9 $3.10, with no extra charge for clearing for two years, using the baggage. It took us five hours to same clearing for garden stuff for make the trip. Extra gas has to another two years or so and then be carried on the car. Presumably abandoning it. After six or seven the tank was full when the car left years the second growth of bush Kachek, and a tin of gas had to be and small trees can be cleared off put in while we were atill about and the land used again for gar- ten miles from our destination dens, but it must grow over for ten This route includes Long-mui, Nam-years or more before it will raise lu, Hun-siang, Au-fo and Lin-mui rice again. It is ten years since markets, and there is also a motor my last visit to the Miso country, road to Deng-ang district City and. I noticed that many of the reaching the latter three towns. villages are now opening up paddy General freight is carried-salt fish, fields and there is more and more a tendency to stay in one locality. cloth and manufactured articles of all kinds-and freight out includes This seems to be not so much from a scarcity of forest to clear as from live pigs, rico, gar and betelnut.
the protection afforded by larger villages, and the need for supple menting the rice supply for larger within smaller compass, Wo went through a sugar cand groups district where the cane was espeThe wealth of the Miao consists water cially luxuriant. We saw many principally of cattle and
The buffalo are often grinding mills, under their high buffalo.
"rented out to the neighbouring round thatched roofs, each with a yoke of oxen placidly tramping Loi, who use them to tread the rice round and round to turn the mill, into their paddy fields and to haul and the pulp going into a vat be-logs to the river. The cattle are low the grinder. The Mino sugar let run wild on the hills, cach owner is much cleaner and frcer from placing his distinctive cut on the foreign substances than the Chinese tip of his animals ears in lieu of a sugar, as the Miao macerate the brand burned on. These cattle get chau in a mortar or with knives, so wild that the round-up is often Fbut of course they make only small an exciting affair, and the traders amounts of sugar for their own who purchase them at Brst lead
them with difficulty,
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their possession and when sakod for their tickets simply pro- duced one of them. One of the Passengers concerned in the case: actually did that thing when asked to produce a ticket by the Police officer.
His Warship, however, convicted the defendant stating that the ovi- dence given by the European officer as sufficient to show that the de- fendant did receive the money and
his own pocket. produced the two false tickets from
He therefore imposed the penalty as stated above.
ROYCOTT OF JAPANESE SHIPS
VESSELS ON YANGTSZE CEASI OPERATIONS ABOVE HANKOW
Hankow, March 30-Japanese steamships plying the upper Yang- tze River ceased operating above Hankow to-day as a result of anti- Japanese agitation. The local Chi- nese "Blood and Iron" Societies have been fostering in the Yang- taze Valley.
Stevedores have refired to handle Japanese cargo. Ons Japanese boat was detained at Ichang as a result of the refusal of Chinese to permit its departure.
In the past week anti-Japanese societies in Hankow have kidnap ped or murdered sight Chinese merchants accused of handling Japanese goods despite the boycott,
The situation here has been tense
since before the start of the Jehol fighting when the defense of the Japanese concession were strength- A large Chinese military ened. force then was encamped near the city, and its artillery was reported trained on the concession,
Communist
Then they with scant success tried force, We saw in several villages the heavy stockades or palisades across the entrances, withi trenches behind for the protection of the guards, but the. poisoned bamboo stakes set up everywhere A few Miao had been removed.. villages, non-Christian, were burz- od, and a few people. lost their lives, but on the whole the Mias
through the came trouble with very little damage. Brigadier General Chen Han Konng has met their leaders, given them. instructions to organize their men into militia units, and the Commu- nists have been thoroughly driven out of their territory. On the last few days of our trip we heard A Fairly Large Town,
rumours of Communist letivity A Pastoral Visit,
along the river near where we were Au-fo is in the extreme southern part of Deng-ang district, and is a For us the climax of the trip to take our boat for Kachek. At fably large town, with three main came in the baptismal service and the meeting in the Christian village abrests. The market place is out communion held in the thatched of Eastern Melon Shed the laat side the west gute, a well-roofed chapel-of-a-central village on Sun Sunday evening the headman arose building open on all sides. The day, March 12. It had been five and stated that the next morning market widened one street. for years since the condition of the every house in the village was to.
unarin motor traffic several years ago and country had permitted a pastoral furnish one man, armed Has several two and three-story visit to these people, but with very ed, to escort us on the eighteen buildings on that one, but the other few exceptions the Christians have mile tramp to the river, and a stroets are rather narrow, paved remained true to the faith. The neighbouring village would also with rough uneven cobblestones, and pastor and elders examined in all furnish men. So wo started out at lined with the regulation one ninety-nine candidates for baptism 0.00 am with an escort of twenty storey houses or shops. There is and church membership, of whom husky young Mite men with their 1 postal service. The infrequent forty-nine were accepted and bap guns and the Miño are excellent others Are sent to Deng Rag city tized. Two Hino deacons were in- shotand ten men to carry our and brought in Iroin these by aar stalled, and nearly two hindrid loads. Wo treadied the river st and part of potamniss the noon, without incident, and found come to this market to sell their the cold the hindered the attend our boat waiting for us, to take us forest products and buy salt fah, ance of mat of the elderly people fresh vegetables, matches, eto. from dist
from distant
Primitive Country,
Wo engaged carriers at Au-lo and walked for five hours the next day” elded
reach our firat Christian Mino
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