"It is less dangerous," says one of the most accurate writers on China, the Rev.A.H.Smith, himself an American missionary, "for a foreigner to cross China than for a Chinese to cross the United States." And there are few who give the matter a thought but must admit the correctness of Mr.Smith's statement.
On May 17th I was on the road again.

The fort of Manyuen is outside the town, and some little distance beyond it the dry creek bends into the pathway at a point where it is bordered with cactus and overshadowed by a banyan tree.

This is said to be the exact spot where Margary was killed..