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sun shone over them lighting brilliantly the tumbled white cumulus clouds of the other half, and it also brought us, soaking wet, to our boat which had gone around to Mao Chia P'u to meet us. The rain let up and we started home to chase across the lake a perfect arching rainbow that at one time had one end in the Three Pools and the other in Heart of the Lake, but which retreated before us as we approached until we lost it in the city.

This was avery good day, with many causes for satisfaction. Hangchou's reputation for beauty might rest on Lin Ying alone. It is not so appealing as for instance, Koyasan, but that place is unique. Still its very genuine beauty of nature and artifice cannot be denied, and I, under its charm and spell, would not deny it if I could. I am glad we saved this until the last.

Sunday, 26 July

We took our small boat this morning, with the girl instead of the man at the paddle, and made our way around the lake. About noon we stopped at the quiet little Temple of the White Cloud we had visited before, and here we spent a couple hours in writing and reading and eating our lunch and just enjoying the fellwoship [[handwritten mark to correct to fellowship]] of each other and beauty and quiet. Then we went on, through the Inner Lake and the lagoons, andunder bridges, and in and out. We stopped at several places of which I wanted to get pictures, loafed under a very old bridge, and finally came home back of Imperial Island, past the Pavilion from which the Storks were Sent Forth, and the last part of the trip raced an oncoming storm. The black clouds filled the west and the white sheet of rain moved down the valley out toward the Imperial Island and us. The man, who had returned but shortly before rushed out to meet us and helped to hurry us to shore. (Since the very first we have always used this man with his boat, or the girl with hers( they belong together) and they know us well now.) We hiked along up to our house and got up on our porch in time to see the storm catch us, and a mighty storm of wind and rain it was, well fulfilling its majestic promise. Wwe were home early, so had time to read some, to play the piano some, and to amuse ourselves a little before and after supper and before we went to bed to get a good cool sleep.