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also thru Kwei Chou where he found very little game.  Rain was constant in Kwei Chou, the people few & [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] all stricken by extreme poverty.  Just north of Yunnan-jou he says there are some wonderful gorges on the Yangstze, - much deeper than the famous gorges near I-tchang.  The crops grown on the borders of the town other than rice which is the chief one are: maize, tobacco, cabbages, cochcomb, red peppers, etc.  At present there are in the market pomegranites, peaches of fine quality, russet pears, & small green apples.  The [[?]] over the railway has reminded me much of Panama & Guatemala in its lower part from Hanoi to [[?FooKay]].  The upper part is strikingly like the highlands of Peru.  Open grass country with deep moraines on the sides of which are vertical forms, and terraces.