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no attention to me. They attend to their own business & they seem to have plenty of business to do. As they do me no harm I will say no more about them. The scenery on the way to the little temple is beautiful I admit. That is the fields are attractive. This is the land of "intense farming." The natives are good agriculturists. But they severally cultivate such small patches - just an acre or so. They do the work by hand; they have no ploughs, rakes, seeders, cultivators, etc. Armed wi a hoe or an old-styled instrument that I wd call a mattock, they do all their work. The kao-liang seems to be the principal crop in this section, wi beans and millet added. We are not in the tea or rice or cotton section of the country. The kao-liang when small looks like our Ill. corn. I was sure it was corn. But it grows very tall like our broom corn & has a wide spread tassel at the top. The natives have stripped off the leaves almost to the top, so that the long rows of the slender, stripped stalks, look like the serried ranks of an army of soldiers, their plumes nodding & waving in the summer air. There are no fences, hedges or ditches separating the several patches. They are one great field. The surface of the country around here is varied; there are hills & valleys & plains; all under the highest cultivation. The mountains in the distance are unusual in their appearance. They are as a rule a succession of single mts. w. cone-like peaks; but here others are irregular formations wh are quite pic.; against the sky they look like broken clouds. In the evenings the scene is one of entrancing beauty. There is something in the atmosphere that creates such won. cloud effects. I never saw such colorings, such delicate shadings of color, & such beau. fleecy clouds tinged w every color of the rainbow. The fields are interested w innumerable beaten paths, running in every direction. There are no roads or highways in a proper sense. There are no wagons or carriages. People are transported from one place