. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. ?mi :. ?? mri^^^^m-^ ^^?-^fW ^ ^ EXPLORATION OF LEW CHEW. 193 and meadows, along its summit. The wood was principally pine, but [ ob-served several new varieties of shrubs, not in flower. Now and then we passedthe huts of the natives, generally in clusters of two and three, but even inthis secluded region notice of our coming had reached them, and the inhabit-ants were hidden. I looked into some, and found the interiors to consist ofa single room, smoke-blackened, and furnished with the rudest utensils. Twoof th
. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. ?mi :. ?? mri^^^^m-^ ^^?-^fW ^ ^ EXPLORATION OF LEW CHEW. 193 and meadows, along its summit. The wood was principally pine, but [ ob-served several new varieties of shrubs, not in flower. Now and then we passedthe huts of the natives, generally in clusters of two and three, but even inthis secluded region notice of our coming had reached them, and the inhabit-ants were hidden. I looked into some, and found the interiors to consist ofa single room, smoke-blackened, and furnished with the rudest utensils. Twoof them had a grating of bamboo, raised, like a floor, about six inches abovethe ground, and the thick mats which serve the Lew Chewans as beds werespread upon this. Mr. Jones left the camp before us, and we had not yet found him. Com-ing to a deep, wooded gorge, with a stream flowing westward, we discoveredthat our true course lay further to the east, and retraced our steps throughthe pine woods, and over upland rice-meadows to an open, grassy height,whence we saw Mr. Jones
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