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Updated: May 7, 2025
No ponies carrying loads are allowed to cross the bridge, the roads east of this being unfit for beasts of burden. There is then a fearful climb to a place called Teo-sha-kwan, a stage of only sixty li. The reader should not mentally reduce this to English miles, for the march was more like fifty miles than thirty, if we consider the physical exertion required to scale the treacherous roads.
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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