56 There was no time for more shooting, and indeed we had all the game we needed, some kept in after the carts. Oct. 18-16-17 Wed-Thurs-Fri These three days were misty steady travelling varied now then by excursions into the fields after a stray flock of geese. The country through which we passed was continuous but the village life was interesting; in almost every hill side were colonies of cave dwellers - houses dug into the brown loam, with a door window to get light & air and there less caves are dry warm and certainly the most satisfactory dwellings possible while to live. They spread all the way from Fung-cheng to the end of our journey and beyond are exceedingly picturesque. They are exactly like those in Hunan, and indeed the whole region in its general aspect was like that interior province. The inns were not bad, as inns go, and are a wonderful improvement on those of Honan and southern China as are all the inns of the north. When we used to speak of the filthy inns of Central & Western Southern China the people of Peking seemed greatly surprised that we found them so very bad, and after travelling in the north