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E. COLBORNE BADER'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES.*

*( China Revisio.)

all

on which to take a nap, he spent half on hour in finding a bare space large enough to lie on. The roadway was not available, for passengers were trooping along it pretty continually

THE CHINA MAIL.

some days after the receipt of the notice, and the light-hearted crowds which gather

де

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Ship Company.

AND

or occasions were chiefly attracted by a theatrical representation on the Hat by Occidental & Oriental Steam- If any of our readers are in search of a

the water-side. One of the noters suddenly. Book to relieve the tedium of a long voyago. Mr. Babar also found in Sz-chan the stopped in the middle his role, and gazing

of tho wearisomonose of convalescence, or only satne ignorance that is distinctive of the up the river, sereamed out the now famillar to make the hours opin along a little faster!

plass all over lettered Cathar." labouring

Shui-lai-la? during the honts of a Summer afternoon, let We ourselves have found that, beyond the of the atook jest, with well-simulated terror,

by-word,

This repetition TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS as recommend to them the volume whose asual amattering of the elementary classics, as it seemed to the merry-makers, drew

TO JAPAN, THE UNITED just transcribed. To

STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND sp-which perhaps he did not remain long shouts of laughter; but the eshent SOUTH AMERICA, AND EUROPE, pearance the brok is only one of the many enough at gehoud to hour explained, the laugh were drowned in the roar si a

u deluge.

VIA volumes, very learned, very technical and ordinary Chinaman is orassly ignorant of I was told how the gleeful faces turned to

dull, which are from time time

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overything outs

The fol- horror as the food swept on outside his businėra.

on like a

a moving insued by

the learned Societies to

to their

lowing

from

wall and Mr. Baber illustrates:

Loverwhelmed 12,000 follows; but tiris charming book of travels Fouricon miles, more or less, is happily an exocption, the toohnicalities

chiof interest of this work is the description Tung-oh ang we and tre relegated to the appendices,

passed the village there

was supposed to be the of the Lole people; feng-yi, where

and the Lola MSS. nothing to disturb the flow of the narrative, onun Catholic Bishop of Chung-ching on which air. Baber procured in the Chien-ed for San Francisco, vin Yokoham, THE 8. S. BELOIC will be despatch. aulese it-be to make an occasional reference his way to the capital, sanninned thither by Chang valley. This district is poopled by on WEDNESDAY, the 31st May, 1882, at

volume. to the maps that ascompany the

the Governor-General 'to answer for At the

two distinct peoples, the character of one of 3 p.m. such tragic elespeats The journey, devoid

Connection being made at Yokohama, those that nocompanied poor Margne, rimes. On other coasims, I was taken for which is summed up, by Sur Marco Polo, in the

a Migo-izus thief, or a bigis dignitary of the insinuation that it is a very pleasant coun of a fascination diffoult Buddhist church. Captain Gill, is nevertheless 1 full

heard, try for young fellows to ga to." The Lolus, to

here, the. reader

is lent into had stopped near Lang-ching to exstine an however, as far as we can gather are a noble nooks and dells of wierdly beauty; there,

exceptionally fine bangon, and with such race. The wom

gentlewomon.

as

is

various

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painfully olimbing mountain hight and baleful efect that, according to my inforra- gentlemen, remarks Mr. Baber, are address in full; and sate will be received!

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pasice, where he unexpectedly comes nate, the tree fell down a few days after his Hera we must close our remarks on the. some secluded monastery built on the heights departure. I lava frequently been asked work proper. If these disjointed-wifes overlooking a brawling stream. Flo

how many feet into the earth. I uld see, should induce any of our readers ta inveet ak trecused to strange pooples, of lutty char On the other hand, a Sesteb missionary was dve shillings in its purchase, our and will seter, of indiferent character, and of an ecuated near Cheng.lu, and asked if it was have beon gained. A glance at the table of character; to Lolo

live, contents will do the rest. aquainted true that all foreigners were blind. Native hussies. He will farther

ignorance of anything extra-Chinese in so

These interested in Yunnan will And with strange surtons, new languages, and dense that it cannot be described; it can vory

valable information in Appendix new forras of writing, i will hind his old oals be illustrated. I once stopped to in II. Notes on the ronto followed by M.. tome, San Francisco. friend Manser Marco Polo lilioni verified again

quire, ia

ia Chinese, of course, of two men Grosvenor's Mission through Western Yo- tion by erities was thought to

... After listening. Here, the mission his see of curvy, again restored to his One of a gand hard by.

berurrator of travels with evident, interest to my question, and trade route whit" followed the well-known Company, No. 50A, Queen's Road Contral.'| position of a

and

who

Katiba-

• gain, and Abbé Hus have who were hosing a field, what was the ptian, from Talifu to Teug-Yueh,"

of

these

eeen througis French spectacles. And there, too, will ho find, men with death, often an staring them in the face, stone and enaided, upholding with steadfast and

olding_courage, the banner of their vas-is, that it is due to the great-struggle Mahommedan te happened in the late

Christ!

eoro

was followed by Maroo without making any reply, one of them re-Polo so many centuries ago, ard the ac- marked to the other, "How much the fan-curacy of this early traveller is triumphantly

Our readers foreigners resembles ours.

vindicated.

swill forgive us for ge To what is ench dense ignorance to be yot another quotation—and then good-bye. attributed ? The only answer that can be The incident we

in Yiingat --- Mate Baber's travels began at Cu'ung labourer from early south is incessantly teens had surrendered and given up their

for existence in these distrista, where the ***General Thunder told

Wit us,

WIE ently confrraed, that when the Moham- he made his way to Ch'ang-tu, the Ch'ing

night to medans. provincial capital, along the Great Westernng and mailing from morning till

bare living. A similar state of affairs

so-called Sultan," Wan-haiu, the Ta is arms, highway of Sz Chuan, considered to be the was not altogether unknowi in England su

the cume iute

of the besiegers, borne encsion the Sacred Mountain of Omi, he proceeded very many years ago, but gradually after in a sedan obair, and inquired for Ma, the descending this Chien-Chang Valley, briefly stitutes, night schools, the ten hours' move water, which being given him, he said, "I

maskinery, there sprang up mechanie iu- to his

to his presence, ha bogged for gup of described by Starco Polo, he tically made stitute his way homewards along the banks of the ent, the Education Act, in short the eleva havo nothing to ask but this--epure the tion of the people. It will be the aupe with people" ("Shao-shojen "). then drank

"). He Golden Kiver.

Chino certain amount of rieure, and The road from Chung Ching to Chêng Twealth as Buckle has shown, is conducive

travelled

which hae, we believe, been previously

to a higher culture. Helloving then that by foreigners, and the latter city more than aace described. A trip with Mr. Baber the introduction of Western appliances will

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"You will hear, I dace say," said But with thous tastes, Mr. Baber is eminology, Philology and Comparative Religion, M Loachlan, what happened to our bro ently practical withal; he has a keen eye for indeed we might say all the Sciences, 30 ther from the Sound when lus was prosch- whatever may have a bearing upon trade, wide is the sphere of Mr. Baber's observa-ing at Kilmore. You know he is very font. and for observing whatever obstacles may be Mt. Omi via Chia-ting-fu. His description into the vestry he said to the elders,

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the dim the industrious and timely Nevertheless, the

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is excellent, and a glance showe modelling to the Capital, Mr. Duber has that the ust have studied from not failed to observe how the natural ad- vantages of the district have been availed for the folds of skin on various parts of the

and the details of the trunk are rea natives as far as their appliances of by the enabled thein, and how the development of the deres with great truth and success, though

with a certain conventionalism. The crea A-kung-Ngum. and outliness, their ineffectiveness has been moet in three sections, beily and FAp-Chau.

watered as this dis- Sz-chuan is, yet owing to the height legs forming tao lower, and back the upper Cheung-shan Horn, trict of

The

guntour of the belly is complete, Chung Har of the fields; they are beyond the usus

Chung Wax. irrigation methods of the Chinese, and fa- but on stooping, beneath one sees that it is

hollow and that the exposed edges are about Fo-pay. mites, as has been stated, not infrequently five irobos thick, in other perts the metal is Ha-wan coont. If the officiala, instead of perfund

grant deal thicker. Each of his feet Heung-kong Tsai torily going through the round of ceremonies

stands on

(Aberdeen). breaze lotus, and on his back proper to the occasion, wers to give a little the mammoth beurs in place of a howda Hok-taui of the time e spent to

to the discussion and

which another huge lotus flower, in which is Hok-taui Wan. adoption of some protionl measures, which th

enthroned an admirable image

of Buddha, 3 experience of foreigners has suggested, it would not be unreasonable to expect that cast, I was told, the same metal, but Hok-ün Kok:

glory towering

the

to Humanity would ease. thickly.

ie crown of gil,

to a height of 38 feet above the floor.

Hok-in

Hang-houng Lo. these scourges

Hang-hom During the next famine in China, we ha. Though generally called a Buddha, the Ka-az Wan

Kai-lung Wan. suggest to the London Committee the dealfage representa Puhaien Pusa (Sa

of conding out deep-level irrigation dra Bodhisattva), the saint who is the

Kau-king, Hanger induces decility; con]

-pui Shok. Wood are common wough in Western or patrouess, for the Chinesa oredit him

with female.

permutations, of mount 0. The Kung Chang, plentiful, and villages ring moaks told me that Pulsien descended up Kung Ko China"; "iron is with the clang of smithics.

Lap-sap Wan. Agrobably there is no Chinese in- on the mountain in the form of an elephant, - W

to which

hich steam power could be applied and that the casting commemorates the La

manifestation But it may more probably atau Cling wich more immeritate and worisas vintage than to the raising of brine from these (salt) bear an allusion to the well-known vision in Ma-tau Kok

which the mother of Buddha saw before his-tals birth a white elephant with six

Ma-tarz tusks,"

dustry

to

wella. Thase I saw of Nai-chinng are not more than 300 feet deep, but at Tsu-bui-ching soma are bored to more than 2000 feet The gear which connects the revolving drum

with the wheel over the well's month dues not speed, so that the buffaloes at each

bave

to marer or run the same

Mr. Baber's description of the mou MTA-ċi.. ridges and valleys in the basin of the Tung

is delightful reading. Ha leaves -

mountainong-kok.. Ngan Ping.

***

San Taun Shit-wa Shaistani Po. Shu-shui Po Shuu-ki Wan. Shek-o. Shek Tong,

Tani. Wan. Shui-taing Wan So-kon Po Tai-kok Tsui. Tai-long Tai-lung Kung. Tai-pang Mi. Tal-ping Shan.

i-shek Kok,

Shok-ton

*TH

Tai-tam Tai-tam Tuk Tai-wan.

Tai-wong Kung Tang un

-lung Üban. Tsat Taz-mui. Tsim Sha Tsui Tro-rat Tani.. To-kwa Wan. To-ti Wan. Tung-wa (Hospital).

Tung-lo

Wan. Un Chan.

Wan-tani.

thing unnoticed; opium patohes, suspension Ngong-shin Chau. bridges, extitiot glaciers, fogs and perpetual Pak-shui Wan. -Wong-kok Tsün. wow all-

Wong-mn Kok. Fare quietly garnered by his watch Pak-fu Lam. as the depth of the well; heroe they have to be driven fast to obtain a remunera that he fell among

fal

Wong-nai Chang. eye. It was at Na-erh-pa in this valley Saiwan Tṣai,

ong thieves. A fuller ae-Sai Ying-pun, Yau-ma Ti. tive output, and it is the pace that kills."

of this is hidden away in the Bonie adjustment

the Appen- which they could pull by

N.B.-Documents siwald not bè, dated harder, but travel slower, would be an ad- 415, but if this discot is the river ever. Year of Kwong-su, which is the style of

aflction of vantage to all parties, but

the any case buffalo is very ill-suited to sash work flowing it its banks. The following story. H. M. the Emperor of China, and is of

is test told in Me. Baber's own words; The substitution of steam for beef po

course inapplicable in a British Colony. power world

However romantic and charming to the. diminish the need for human labour; a man at the valve and smother in traveller's view may be the situation of the the stable, with a boy to guide the buffaloes, villages in this wild region, the inhabitants are exposed to calamities by flood and firs,

xuk

in

Money Orders. 1-Money Orders are exchanged withi

are all that the present system requires for which must render a prolonged roaidence the mere

al brine, and hany, or more, would he employed if steam power andesirable. We assisted at a conflagration the following countries were used, while the greatly increased out-

which

nearly dem

are raising

demolished Na-erb-ga, and India. low of bring would afford, occupation for passed male aches. The dwellings are all New South Wales

which had only lately Japan. mere, hands in the evaporating shed, At risca from ite Tzu-lin-shing the boilers would be heated built of wood, and are situated on the border Part Darwin. by gas, the fuel by which the evaporation is of torrente, often in very hazardous posi- Queensland. now effected."

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1788

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