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Dingle, Edwin John, 1881-1972

"Across China on Foot"


2nd day--Lao-ya-kwan 70 li 6,800 ft.
3rd day--Lu-feng-hsien 75 li 5,500 ft.
4th day--Sei-tze 80 li 6,100 ft.
5th day--Kwang-tung-hsien 60 li 6,300 ft.
6th day--Rest day.
7th day--Ch'u-hsiong-fu 70 li 6,150 ft.
8th day--Luho-kai 60 li 6,000 ft.
9th day--Sha-chiao-kai 65 li 6,400 ft.
10th day--Pu-peng 90 li 7,200 ft.
11th day--Yuen-nan-i 65 li 6,800 ft.
12th day--Hungay 80 li 6,000 ft.
14th day--Chao-chow 60 li 6,750 ft.
15th day--Tali-fu 60 li 6,700 ft.
A long, winding and physically-exhausting road took me from
Sha-chiao-kai to Yin-wa-kwan, the most elevated pass between Yuen-nan-fu
and Tali-fu, and continued over barren mountains, bereft of shelter, and
void of vegetation and people, to Pupeng. A rough climb of an hour and a
half then took me to the top of the next mountain, where roads and ruts
followed a high plateau for about thirty li, and with a precipitous
descent I entered the plain of Yuen-nan-i.


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