was bright last the valley much or hazy. After luffing we made a 3 hour march across the valley to Young Chwang which is situated on the west side of the base of the hills. The city wall includes one of the hills, & much of the country inside the long wall is rice fields, behind pine forests. On the road we met a few caravans of jacks open with regular double three Chinese jack saddles the first we have seen with such a rig. One of the products seen on the road were bolts, lily stems in dried bundles. In the city were many dried ducks for sale. Sugar cane, citron, pistachios, dried taffies, walnuts, oranges, etc. many grains were seen. The women here all have bound very small feet like typical Chinese but are tribes people in feature. Marco Polo passed from Young Chwang (Vorsang as described in Vidal) describes the place as inhabited by