Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats; or, An overland journey from China towards India . n village, and I obeyed with alacrity thechief s summons to rise and prepare for a start next morningbefore daylight. After a hasty meal of fowl and cold rice, the chief led mefrom his house by a by-path to the outskirts of the village,where the escort and baggage animals were all ready was still quite dark when, bidding the kind Tze-fanfarewell, we commenced our return to Weisee, and ere dawnwere several miles away from Tung-Ian. About noon we met a party of Tze-fan scouts
Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats; or, An overland journey from China towards India . n village, and I obeyed with alacrity thechief s summons to rise and prepare for a start next morningbefore daylight. After a hasty meal of fowl and cold rice, the chief led mefrom his house by a by-path to the outskirts of the village,where the escort and baggage animals were all ready was still quite dark when, bidding the kind Tze-fanfarewell, we commenced our return to Weisee, and ere dawnwere several miles away from Tung-Ian. About noon we met a party of Tze-fan scouts, returningfrom Li-kiang-foo, lying about twenty miles distant on theright. They reported a skirmish near Li-kiang-foo, in whichthe Imperialists had been worsted. We all breakfasted to-gether, and having smoked a friendly pipe, once more com-menced our march, and late in the evening were welcomed byour old friend in the village of Sz-se-to. During this days march the baggage animals had beenmuch annoyed by the attacks of a kind of scorpion fly. Thestings drove them nearly frantic, and many times we had to. THE SCORPION PLT. A A 354 TEAYELS OF A PIONEER OF COMMEECE. [Cii. XII. reload the baggage kicked off by the poor beasts in theirfrenzy of pain. We had experienced this pest previously in alesser degree, and for some time had been utterly unable toaccount for the unusual restiveness of our mules. Philip hadbeen thrown twice, and my usually steady Jacob seemedto have been transformed without apparent reason into avicious kicker. The flies, which only attack the belliesof the horses or mules, for a long time escaped our notice,until I discovered them by accident. While resting bythe roadside, the mule, which I held by the bridle, sud-denly gave a squeal and commenced kicking and plungingmadly, and then for the first time I saw the fly sticking tohis belly. After apparently stinging the mule, it fell off tothe ground, where I killed it as it lay seemingly stupified. Itsjointed bo
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