bundles of tiny twigs about 12" long, which had been gathered in the mud, in other words into the bed. While the villagers burn grass, rather much strips which are marked by a willows, The twigs were little more than grass & it would require tons of it to cook 4 sheep nor warming our tent, So the idea of this shall be ab- andoned and I decided to rent some rooms in a Chinese house in the village & send me to somewhere else for coal. I found a small house at which we got 3 rooms and moved there quite afternoons. This morning was little better than yesterday--in the way of weather for a strong wind was blowing from a lowering sky. We started out nevertheless on the direction we had taken & at, but further up the path I saw no sheep until some when my horse glimpsed a big rain just as it disappeared over a peak opposite of us. We never saw it again. We have reached some grassy uplands a few moments later in which patches of snow lay in the