They were very strict in their rules, so that sramans from the territory of Ts'in( 9) were all unprepared for their regulations.
Fa-Hsien, through the management of Foo Kung-sun, _maitre d'hotellerie_,( 10) was able to remain (with his company in the monastery where they were received) for more than two months, and here they were rejoined by Pao-yun and his friends.( 11) (At the end of that time) the people of Woo-e neglected the duties of propriety and righteousness, and treated the strangers in so niggardly a manner that Che-yen, Hwuy-keen, and Hwuy-wei went back towards Kao-ch'ang,( 12) hoping to obtain there the means of continuing their journey.

Fa-Hsien and the rest, however, through the liberality of Foo Kung-sun, managed to go straight forward in a south-west direction.

They found the country uninhabited as they went along.

The difficulties which they encountered in crossing the streams and on their route, and the sufferings which they endured, were unparalleled in human experience, but in the course of a month and five days they succeeded in reaching Yu-teen.( 13) NOTES (1) An account is given of the kingdom of Shen-shen in the 96th of the Books of the first Han dynasty, down to its becoming a dependency of China, about B.C.80.

The greater portion of that is now accessible to the English reader in a translation by Mr.Wylie in the "Journal of the Anthropological Institute," August, 1880.