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Temple only once a year
To pray for a successful
wigan * to god or
Buddha - On our way back
we saw the Chinese trying on
or for sale ponies near one of their walls.
The ponies were being ridden
at a fast single-foot past a
crowd of spectators. We stopped
in a bar shop near the south
wall where a large stock of
horses & coats were shown.
Coats made of Mountain goat $2,000,00
$1,000, a skin price were shown;
Wild cat, gray squirrel, etc
were much less, $20.00 usually
Pangal skins were $30.- 40.,
Horses of many colors were shown
us, red, brown, gray, white, etc,
2.0 At 8:15 AM I left the
hotel with the Brunnsleeds in
a motor car for the Hsi Chi Man
station situated 4 miles away
and N.W. gate of the Tartar