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well wooded and with patches of Lisu cultivation

on the lower slopes.

Creepers like long streamers were hanging from

some of the trees. Pereira had noted the same

in Tibet and West Szechwan. His Tibetan boy

called it Lao-wa-yen, or " Raven smoke ". Some

of the last of the rhododendrons were in bloom,

and there were a good many ferns on the hill-sides.

Tsuan-t'ien P'o, 8670 feet, was reached at

13 2 miles, and another grand view was obtained

down the valley with (probably) the high range

of the Yangtze in the distance. Beyond this the

road wound along the hill-side, and finally there

was a steep descent through a wood to Ta-Liu, a

village of twenty houses, with ninety more scat-

tered round, at an elevation of 7451 feet. The

people round were partly Chinese and partly Lisu.

Keeping along the hill-side on the following

day for the first 3 miles, Pereira then had half a

mile of steep descent to a bridge over the Ch'u-i

Ho, 6230 feet. The bridge was covered with a

wood roof on mud walls. On the other side was

a very steep climb and some bad pieces up steep

rocky places among trees, chiefly fir, to the top

of Ta-lo-han-sung-P'o, 7810 feet, at 5 miles.

Then the path lay high up along the hill-side with

a deep valley on the left to the top of Chi-tan P'o,

the Egg Hill, 8200 feet, at 8i miles, a pleasant

spot with grass, some trees and a spring. Then

after a steep descent of 450 feet the road rises to

K'ou-tzu-chin P'o, 8050 feet, at 10i miles, after

which there are some steep descents ; but the

road passes along the hill-side among fir and bush

till at 15 miles it descends to the very fertile

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