. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. Ixxxiii. lx\xi\ BRIDGES 251 In some parts of the way the underbrush was verythick. At one time we met more than two hundredhorses and donkeys with foreign goods from Burmah. The steep valleys leading from the plain of ShayangHo, up the mountains, are terraced and green. Onehundred feet below is a flat covered with whitewashedgraves, the whitewashing being attended to at NewYears time. The graves point exactly south, as iflaid by a compass. I hung my pocket Fahr. ther-mometer on a tall
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. Ixxxiii. lx\xi\ BRIDGES 251 In some parts of the way the underbrush was verythick. At one time we met more than two hundredhorses and donkeys with foreign goods from Burmah. The steep valleys leading from the plain of ShayangHo, up the mountains, are terraced and green. Onehundred feet below is a flat covered with whitewashedgraves, the whitewashing being attended to at NewYears time. The graves point exactly south, as iflaid by a compass. I hung my pocket Fahr. ther-mometer on a tall cactus in the sun, and it registeredfifty-two degrees. The village of Shayang Ho isseventy-five li from Chutung. The entrance is overa bridge, on which is erected a demon trap, , asmall temple erected to the king of the demons. Thisis supposed to be a safe plan for preventing his inferiorsfrom interfering with the towns people. Near theskew bridge is an official rest house. Two hundredfamilies the place boasts of and six temples. Thereis a market every five days, at which time the townis crowded. I ate the af
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