| Show 7 0 F pit SM t IW 11 V 4 V J 1 J I 1 the wagon road fion ni to pekin crosses the S shaped loops of c the ho pei no ho river rt at several points between the two the country is very level and devo devoid d cf picturesque fe fis tures turea the river Is shallow and ana very broad la in pi places the channel is 13 only suited tor for light draught vessels and is hard to follow the boats are poled up the river and nd sail or drill drift eown cown the chinese cave now bo ked tile the channel A large part ot of the country can be flooded by means of 0 the grand canal this rises high above the surrounding try the land la 13 given up almost entirely to the cultivation of mill at the principal chinese grain and to truck gardening the truck girdens gardens are the most interesting the cabbages asparagus peas tomatoes pumpkins and other vegetables they grow are the firest alcest in the world the chinese cultivators are independent ot of nature and the tha elements they depend nelta neither on rain nor sunshine to raise their vegetables the work goes gnes on uninterruptedly all the year round there are hardly any woods here but from time to time there are little thick c amps ot of trees which give shade and have a peculiarly chinese appearance small hamlets are scattered everywhere the landscape develops many strange features as one approaches pro aches the larger towns chief chef among these are high poles with decapitated human heads stuck on top 0 of them this is the commonest form ot of punishment in china and the mandarin puts the heads the city to remind travelers without delay 0 of the fate ate that awaits evildoers telegraph poes diversify the scenery with head bead poles another curious feature consists of rows of huge grotesque elephants tigers and other animals carved in soapstone soaps tono they form a sort of artificial menagerie there are avenues of these things leading to the entrances to several cities they are rut there as objects of 0 art and not for or any religious purpose in many places tn in tiro country there ire are also colossal statues ot of gods and warriors varr lors after pelt pait sang is yan tsu tsun eighteen miles from the houses ne are built ot of mud brick made with straw they are arc quite comfortable inside and pretty in appearance on account of the vegetation around them as at so en many other towns there Is 13 a canal crossed by a boat bridge lota lofa about thirty miles from Is a more important place than most of 0 tile the others mentioned the country Is somewhat rollins rolling here this place Is the seat of 0 an important mandarin ills ilia headquarters or yamen Is a bis big building ot of blue brick ornamented with dragons and queer chinese beasts the entrance Is appropriately decorated with the heads of decapitated criminals in a pound alongside it other criminals may be seen undergoing various form of 0 torture A common punishment that Is 13 inflicted tor for the most trivial of olten fences ces Is the a hugs hug collar of wood almost to heavy to bo be borne but so arranged that it prevents prisoner from lying down forty miles from Is the important walled city ot of lang fans fang which Is near the ardys route this place Is about taur four thousand years old I 1 had bad a peculiar here in what Is described as a first class clasa chinese hotel there is a famous joss house in lang fang which contains twenty idols or gods including the god of war the god of strength the god ot of death the god of 0 eyes the god of 0 fertility and others followers 0 of buddha and confucius use these joss josa houses impartially there Is also a temple ot of tortures this Is filled with figures made of 0 clay and papier mache illustrating in an extremely realistic manner all the tortures inflicted indicted by chloese law it la Is tar far more horrible aba than a the chamber of horrors at alime mme Tussa nere here you see sea a representation ot of n man inan belag being sawed in half and another being slowly ground to pieces on B grindstone and so on ilo iio sl SI wu Is a town ot of considerable size about lifty fifty miles from pekin Is a small place on the railroad some fifty four miles from which may figure ra the march ot of the allies at this point the tha natural route ot of the army turns westward feng tal seventy four miles from la 13 situated on top ot of a from which pekin comes suddenly into view the sight ot of this great and mysterious city with its nalls nails and quaintly rooted temples Is one that cannot tall fall to create a deep impression upon the traveler it makes one think of 0 a traveler in ancient days coming in sight of the sacred city of 0 jerusalem here is the grand canal which Is a great artificial wp waterway connecting pekin with nankin it is carried between betwee embankments which rise high above the surrounding country in times of 0 peace the canal Is covered with a vast fleet of 0 junks some ot of which are bigger than a large ocean steamer they draw as much as ten feet of water and have an immense len lenth length th and beam the famous west gate gat e of 0 pekin Is the one through which the ordinary traveler from makes his bis entrance the gate has the thIc thickness kress of a new york city block and in the passage through it there aro are a dozen gates of different patterns some opening in the middle some working on hinges binges and others falling like the walls rise to a height of eighty feet and over the gate there is a temple a hundred feet high with trees growing around it on top of the wall z 1 P AL luar lu AR irr t A J A al 1 Y GUL g PE CHILI CHI LI I 1 G S le 7 A HAW own I 1 is i TR I 1 TA RU HY E N jo HOKIEN HO KIEN e RAND ar 7 M W 1 L 0 T titi za SEA at t 41 MAP OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN AND PEKIN |
