. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. si and Szechuan we wereable to use silver dollars and copper cents even in the mostout of the way parts, a great convenience; the buying upof the cash for the export of the copper they contain, whichis now going on so extensively throughout China, may beillegal, but it is hardly to be regretted by the tourist in theinterior, if it means the gradual disappearance of this dirtyand cumbersome form of currency. We finally left Lanchou on August 26 on our overlandmarch to Powan, di
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. si and Szechuan we wereable to use silver dollars and copper cents even in the mostout of the way parts, a great convenience; the buying upof the cash for the export of the copper they contain, whichis now going on so extensively throughout China, may beillegal, but it is hardly to be regretted by the tourist in theinterior, if it means the gradual disappearance of this dirtyand cumbersome form of currency. We finally left Lanchou on August 26 on our overlandmarch to Powan, distant three marches of 65, 80, and 70 lirespectively. The road runs down the left bank of the YellowRiver for about 15 li, and then, turning north up a gully,winds through a maze of low waterless hills of loess for therest of the way to the walled village of Chang Chuantzuin the valley of a brackish rivulet, the end of the first second days march is through similar desert hills tothe hamlet of Hsikou. In places the small shallow valleysare cultivated and produce millet and inferior melons, but PLATE XLl. OUR RAFTS ON THE UPPER YELLOW RIVER
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