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miles lower down the Yalung joins it, and below

the junction it is called the Chin-sha Ch'iang.

At the point where Pereira struck it, the Ta-tu-

k'ou ferry, it is 200 yards wide with a strong current.

The boat had to make seven trips, and the crossing

took four and a half hours.

On the opposite side of the Yangtze was

Szechwan. Leaving the ferry, there was a stiff

climb, and the path then led across level ground

with some cultivation. It then runs by the river

and afterwards by a small fertile valley to Hsin-

chuang, 4107 feet, a hamlet of forty-three families,

at 144 miles.

On July 30 Pereira marched 221-- miles to

Hsin-kai. At 21 miles he was again in the

Yunnan Province. Two miles farther on there

was some difficulty in crossing the Pa-kan Ho,

which was 21- feet deep with a strong current.

At 144 miles was Ma-shang, a village of thirty

families, where there was a Roman Catholic

Mission under Pères Salvat and Durier. They

have about six hundred Christians, and live in a

nice little mission house with a courtyard, in the

middle of which is a big acacia tree. They said

the people round were a good deal mixed Chinese

with Shan and Lolo. Many looked like Shan.

And here again people wore white turbans round

their heads.

The road here leaves the Yangtze and ascends

the Han-po Ling, 4500 feet, at 18f miles. It then

descends over low hills, and passing up a fertile

valley . Hsin-kai, 4420 feet, is reached. It has

fifty families.

Hwa - p' ing - hsien, a town of seven hundred

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