The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . p was adazzlingvision of loveliness emerging from a vast ocean ofclouds. It took us about an hour to arrive at thesummit, and the priest told us that as the sun shonewe were evidently good people. This was highlysatisfactory, as so many people thought us fools forattempting the ascent at this time of year, telling usof all the people who had toiled to the top and seennothing. We anxiously
The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . p was adazzlingvision of loveliness emerging from a vast ocean ofclouds. It took us about an hour to arrive at thesummit, and the priest told us that as the sun shonewe were evidently good people. This was highlysatisfactory, as so many people thought us fools forattempting the ascent at this time of year, telling usof all the people who had toiled to the top and seennothing. We anxiously inquired at what time ofday we could see Buddhas Glory, a sort of Brockenspectre which is rarely seen by travellers, and whichwe were told could not be seen at all at this time ofyear. Standing on the edge of the summit, you lookdown a precipice of more than a mile, and we couldonly feast our eyes on the ever-changing scene, theclouds looking as if they were boiling up from somehidden caldron, now concealing, now revealing thepeaks of distant mountains. On a clear day the far-distant snowy peaks of Tibet are visible, and theglorious fertile plain out of which the limestone peakof Mount Omi rises. 192. SUMMIT OF MOUNT OM] ch. xvii Mount Omi I established myself in a sunny nook under thetemple eaves, and sent for hot water with which tosketch the neighbouringcragof the 10,000 lunch I sketched the interior of the Buddhashrine with all its gaudy, squalid trappings, a harmonyin reds. I was amazed to see the brevity of theworshippers prayers ; owing, I think, to their fear ofmy introducing them into the sketch. The threefigures of the Buddha were behind a large red curtain,in which were openings through which they couldbe dimly discerned. We went back to our formerquarters for the night, but had very little rest, as thecoolies went in for a night of revelry, in which wefelt sure the monks shared, although our suggestionto that effedt next day was vehemently
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