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0599 Across Asia : vol.1
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RECORDS OF THE JOURNEY

tja   annual crop   cattle   horses mules donkeys sheep

Hualingli

1,000

4,00o tan

850

200

35

350

6,500

Lifengli

450

3,000

»

750

100

35

35

5,500

W Tseitungli

3,000

15,000

»

4,000

1,000

450

2,000

55,000

Tsingpingli    

4,000

20,000

»

5,500

650

650

2,000

55,000

Wingtchuenli

2,000

10,000

»

1,000

650

250

1,000

25,000

Veifuli    

200

1,000

»

100

55

35

100

3,000

N Kingshuli    

io,600

65,000

»

20,000

1,500

850

1.0,000

35,000

Vei yang li

   10,000

 

55,000

»

10,000

1,500

1,000

7,500

15,000

Paoyuenli    

1,000

5,000

»

1,000

250

85

750

10,000

Weisengli    

450

3,000

»

300

85

35

300

6,500

Wheat, barley, tchinkho, peas, beans, oats, opium, potatoes, tchoumi (?), millet, tchumiza, rice, mustard, tobacco and fruit are grown. Average crop in the E 7-8 fold, in the S 5-6, in the W 6-7 and in the N 8-9. - The annual taxes yield 1,020 tan and 5,600 taels, customs duty 5-600 taels. - Medicinal herbs (tseihu, shungma, tangsyng, teihuang, shuo uo, tsindjao, kants'ao, mahuang, ujuo etc.) are exported annually to the value of 20-30,00o taels. - From Ning yuan a bridlepath leads southward over Li hsien to Sytchuan. Trade only local and small. The greater part of the merchandise is obtained from Tsinchow. There is a military detachment quartered in the town.

Immediately to the E of the village we crossed the Nan ho, which was 6 fathoms wide April 12th.

here, the water coming up to our knees. The bottom was firm and the current swift. The Kuan-tzu

village of Tchudja chow with 7o houses lay on the other side. The road went on in an ESE cheng village.

direction closer to the mountains on the right than the river, which was only visible occa-

sionally at some distance. The ground was the same as yesterday, but there were more

trees. In many places the road had cut a deep channel in the ground which, in combination

with the trees, limited the view very much. The landscape was not so full of colour to-day

as it was yesterday. After 8-9 li we passed through the village of Tientahan. 15 li from

Liohmen the road was again intersected by the Sie lan ho, a tributary of the Wei ho from

the S. It flowed in 3 branches, the total width of which was 5-6 fathoms. The water came

about 3/4 of the way up the horses' legs. 5 li beyond a series of villages began, bearing

the traditional nomenclature according to distance, one of them a huge one of goo houses.

We were 50 li from Fukiang and the village was named U-shih-li-pu (the village on the

50th li). 1 li further on we crossed another small tributary. Shui-shih-li-pu, a village

of 65 houses, lies at the foot of a spur of the mountain, from which it is separated by a small

river. At 36 and 40 li from our starting-point there were 2 villages, both called San-shih-li-pu,

with 250 houses altogether. The valley was now not over 2/3 of a mile wide and the road

ran quite close to the foot of the mountains. Another little river flows past the second

of these villages. Immediately to the E of it two small branches of the Wei ho reach the

mountains. Here the ground was marshy for a distance of 1/3 of a mile. The mountains

on the right were quite close to the road. They looked as though they were of red sand-

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