"The villages & cities in this region are practically Tibetan being marvelled at without explained gables. The chief characteristic of a Chinese town is its filth & its uniformity: all Chinese towns are alike & are moreover alike in every part. Ten square yards of almost any part is like all the rest of the town & of all Chinese towns as well as those transplanted ones in California & other foreign parts. 27 I spent the day before hunting in the range across the valley. The new hunter took me to a deep ravine or canyon walled by great limestone cliff with somethings on the ledge. There were 4 men with long barrel match locks with 4,5 drops of the pygmy type, smallest & short-barrel not Chon (Chinese) drop; the guns the men carried had eyeglass sights which they held