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CHAPTER XV.
TALI FU TO T'ENG YÜEH.
It is a weary struggle of twelve days from Tali Fu to T'eng Yüeh. The magnificence of the scenery does not always compensate the traveller for the fact that immense ranges of mountains, separated by correspondingly deep valleys, have to be crossed with monotonous regularity in the course of each successive day's march. From Hsia-kuan the track follows a stream draining from the south-west corner of the Tali lake to the little village of Yang-pi on the river of the same name, dropping 1500 feet in doing so. A fine suspension-bridge stretches across the river, and on the far side the path zigzags up the wall of mountains which hems in the valley of the
