Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . few extracts from hisdiary may serve to present glimpses of the trip. The second day out from Chengtu he ran into that great curse totravelers in western China—the intermittent and rather formless civilwarfare. The road he was traversing followed the north bank of theMin. The 24th Army occupies the south bank. They fired threetimes at us near the city, and twice about 5 miles above the city. Ileft by the w^st gate and ran the gauntlet first and got clear pastbefore the firing began. None of us was injured. After leaving the val
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . few extracts from hisdiary may serve to present glimpses of the trip. The second day out from Chengtu he ran into that great curse totravelers in western China—the intermittent and rather formless civilwarfare. The road he was traversing followed the north bank of theMin. The 24th Army occupies the south bank. They fired threetimes at us near the city, and twice about 5 miles above the city. Ileft by the w^st gate and ran the gauntlet first and got clear pastbefore the firing began. None of us was injured. After leaving the valley of the To, the roads became increasinglyworse and in some places were more theoretical than real. The diffi-culties of travel were lightened bv an amusing, though, at the time,probably annoying, incident with a mule, which may be quoted inGrahams own laconic, matter-of-fact language. I was to ride a 20-year-old mule, .... After I had ridden ashort distance I got off and invited the collector, Mr. Pen. to rideawhile. He got on. 23 24 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Fig. i8.—The modernized streets of Suifu, Szechwan, China. (Photograph by D. C. Graham.)
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