CH’UNG-K’ING TO THE CAPITAL OF KUEI-CHOW.
My overland caravan--Harvesting
opium--Field-fishing--Wood-oil--The manufacture of paper--Salt
carriers--Silkworms and their food--Rice or Pith paper, and
its manufacture--The Kuei-chow frontier--Minerals--First
meeting with Miao-tzŭ--Poetical description of Chinese
inns--T’ung-tzŭ, its poppy valley and tunnelling--Ingenious
bamboo water-wheels--Scant population amid ruins of fine
houses--Coal-dust as fuel--The Wu Chiang River--Destruction
of the iron suspension bridge--Northern Kuei-chow, a Miao-tzŭ
graveyard--Opium-sodden inhabitants--The capital of the
Province--An interview with the Governor of Kuei-chow 14