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their fourteen children seemed to collect in this

room.

The Lisu from here onwards become more and

the Mosu less numerous. The Lisu girls wear a

cotton hood with rows of cowrie shells—some-

times as many as seven or eight hundred. These

shells are brought up from Burma at a price of

seventy for a dollar.

On August 25 Pereira marched 19 miles to

Lan-lu-k'a or Na-lon-k'a. The country was now

wilder. The hills were steep and well-wooded.

And the road passed through some grand gorges

the river breaking through rocky cliffs 500 to

700 feet in height. At 171 miles the trail from

the Salween comes down to Tzu-ku, where there

was formerly a Roman Catholic station, but it

was burnt by Tibetans about a dozen years before,

and there is now a new station 1i- mile higher up

at Tzu-chung. There was rain during the night

and light showers during the day.

Pereira paid a visit, the next day, to Père

Ouvrard, whose mission station was on the opposite

side of the river. The crossing had to be effected

by a double rope bridge, which is an especially

troublesome matter for any one with a bad

leg, and he found it exciting looking down into

the foaming river below. Professor Gregory,

Weatherbe, and many other travellers had crossed

by the bridge.

Père Ouvrard was suffering from malaria. He

said his parish extended some 39 miles to the

south to Yeh-chih and on the north nearly to

Yakalo. He had 622 baptized Christians, of

whom over 400 were Tibetans and the rest mostly

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