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Yeng-peh valley, which is three-quarters of a mile

wide and covered with rice fields.

Yeng-peh-hsien is reached at ln miles. It is

a city of 12,000 families, at an elevation of 6854

feet. Pereira stayed in the Roman Catholic

Mission station, which is under the supervision

of the priests at Ma-shang, whom he had seen

five stages back.

On August 5 he crossed the fertile plain and

then over hills with atrocious descents very

slippery after rain. At 14 miles he reached Shui-

ch'ung, where there were pears, plums and

apricots. This place is also called Ho-tsung.

Next day he ascended the Ch'ing-shui Ho

valley, climbing up the hill-side, which was fairly

well wooded, with occasional farms and patches

of cultivation. At 10i miles he reached the Chi-

ch'ing-kang Po, 8088 feet, and then slightly de-

scended to Tawan, a village of forty-five families,

at 13 miles.

From here on to Likiang Fu the people are

mostly Mosu, a Tibetan race nearly resembling the

Lisu and Nosu, with broad nostrils and beaked

noses. Here they dress like the Chinese, but

many had sheepskin clothes. The men averaged

from 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches.

Making a bend to cross a stream which farther

on makes its way through a deep gorge to the

Yangtze, the road again climbs the hill-side, and

at 161- miles is the Chu Ya-k'ou, or Bamboo Pass

from which there is a gorgeous view. The

Yangtze, looking like a small muddy stream, is

far below and runs between great steep moun-

tains rising 5000 to 7000 feet above it. In front

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