We did not reach the main city at 9 o'clock, from where we were travelling, by the whole one half again as long as the ordinary lie. Eventually got to a point where we went in this way to get to receive us. The cook made for the kitchen and found a dead man there so we moved to another. At ten o'clock that 9 m, we reached Tang Kwan, a fortified city on the banks of the Yellow River, which is fort at the corner of Honan and Shensi provinces. It is a picturesque place with high walls on the summit of the hills. There is a gate across the road, some distance from the city gate and as the moat is 20 feet deep here it makes a formidable defense. Then she did just pass right by to me how that he had had certain troops behind him who might cut him off so he could have held the pass against a strong army. Our party were rather amazed when -- or rather amused was.