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CHAPTER VII.
TZU-LIU-CHING TO CH'ÊNGTU.
Tzu-liu-ching is a considerable town running in long straggling streets—narrow and desperately dirty—on both sides of an affluent of the Lu Ho, called locally the Ching Ho or Well river. The surrounding country is hilly, and in all directions clusters of skeleton derricks may be seen, resembling the derricks of an oil-field. But the smoke and smell of oil are both absent, the motive-power being in every case supplied by buffaloes. There are the usual piles of native-made cloth, and many shops stocking foreign-made fancy goods—perfumes and powders from Osaka; looking-glasses, clocks, watches, cigar-holders, buttons, and belts from Germany
