Stoned--Thirteen hours in my saddle--Marshy country--A comfortable separate room--Sickening smell--“Only” dead of smallpox--In a drenching rain--Women in all their finery--Deformed feet--A miserable hamlet--The obstinate donkey and the hole-man--The highway from Pekin to Kalgan--A fine stone bridge--Numerous towers--Fire signalling--The Great Wall at Cha-tao--The gate of Tziun-kuan--Stockinged pigs--Caravans--The Nankao Pass--The Ming tombs--The avenue of gigantic animals--Our last halt--Unsanitary regulations--A festive village--Fishing Pp. 319-324