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[[underline]] Chapter XIV. [[/underline]] 288.

members of the local gentry to thwart the duly constituted authorities indirectly, by opposing us.  This they felt the safer in doing because they knew that we had not yet received the formal official documents that Gov. Yen had promised us, and so could plead ignorance of his orders.
  We also decided to send out our saddle-horses and pack-animals, with our equipment, to the village of P'u-tzŭ wan (see page 231), as a convenient midway station now that the rivers had fallen sufficiently to be fordable, there to await our own arrival by train on October 7th---the next day but one.
The following morning Dr. Hall again paid me a professional call, and warned me, after an examination, that I was on the verge of acute bronchitis.  The same evening Mr. Ch'iu left for Peking, to attend to certain matters connected with the working-arrangement between us and the Historical Museum (see pp. 72, 77).
  When the morning of the 7th dawned, clear and brisk, Mr. Wenley's cold had pretty well left him; but mine had grown worse, and had invaded my chest.  I found myself so ill, in consequence, that as soon as it became light enough to see, Mr. Wenley went for Dr. Hall.  The latter at once diagnosed my case as one of acute bronchitis, and ordered me to remain in my blankets, on my camp-cot, for the present.  So I asked Mr. Tung to ride out to the Fang Shan without us, and make the necessary preliminary contacts and arrangements with the people of the locality.

[[underline]] Mr. Tung's Report [[/underline]]
Mr. Tung got away to an early start, and returned the same afternoon, much elated at the outcome of his forty-mile ride.  He had, he told us, found a way quite practicable for horses, up the valleys of the Yü Ho and its lefthand affluent the Chên-ch'uan Ho (see map, [[strikethrough]] pl. CXVIII [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fig. 53) [[strikethrough]] CXIX) [[/strikethrough]] ]] to a point abreast of the west side of the Fang Shan, and thence to its sum-