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My coolies--probably owing to having derived more
pecuniary advantage than they expected during the journey from
Chung-king--decided to re-engage, and promised to complete the
fourteen-day tramp to Chao-t'ong-fu, two hundred and ninety miles
distant, if weather permitted, in eleven days. We were to travel by the
following stages:--
Length of Height above
stage sea
1st day--Anpien 90 li ----
2nd day--Huan-chiang 55 li ----
3rd day--Fan-ih-ts'uen 70 li ----
4th day--T'an-t'eo 70 li ----
5th day--Lao-wa-t'an 140 li 1,140 ft.
6th day--Teo-sha-kwan 60 li 4,000 ft.
7th day--Ch'i-li-p'u 60 li 1,900 ft.
8th day--Ta-wan-tsi 70 li ----
9th day--Ta-kwan-ting 70 li 3,700 ft.
10th day--Wuchai 60 li 7,000 ft.
11th day--Chao-t'ong-fu 100 li 6,400 ft.
I knew that I was in for a very hard journey. The nature of the country
as far as T'an-t'eo, ten li this side of which the Szech'wan border is
reached, is not exhausting, although the traveler is offered some rough
and wild climbing.


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