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It was midday, and the sun was hot, so a chair was arranged for to take me the seventeen miles to Anpien. "Walk on," said the missionary, "and teach them a Christian lesson," so I walked seventeen miles in the sun to rebuke them for their avarice and save one halfpenny. In the evening I am afraid that I was hardly in the frame of mind requisite for conducting an evangelical meeting.
It was a dull, chilly morning that I left Sui-fu, leading my little procession through the city on my way to Anpien, which was to be reached before sundown.
Anpien is a considerable town. It is on the Yangtse River just below where it bifurcates into two rivers, one of which goes north-west, the other south-west. Streets of temporary houses are built down by the river; they form the winter suburb, and disappear in the summer when the river rises in consequence of the melting of the snows in its mountain sources.
1st day Anpien 90 li 2nd day Huan-chiang 55 li 3rd day Fan-ïh-ts'uen 70 li 4th day T'an-t'eo 70 li 5th day Lao-wa-t'an 140 li 1,140 ft. 6th day Teo-sha-kwan 60 li 4,000 ft. 7th day Ch'i-li-p'u 60 li 1,900 ft. 8th day Ta-wan-tsï 70 li 9th day Ta-kwan-ting 70 li 3,700 ft. 10th day Wuchai 60 li 7,000 ft. 11th day Chao-t'ong-fu 100 li 6,400 ft. I knew that I was in for a very hard journey.
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