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Temple at Hun Nan She good looking.

Wooden tablets of [worship?] of this locality
in Hsien temple in corner of city: magis-
trate comes here to worship to their spirits
in spring + fall. These are put there by
election.

In Loa Chieng large temple is wooden
tablet to Nan Hai 無宝望彿

In 610 (about) Fenchow set aside by
imperial decree as trading post with
people of Chinese Turkestan.

Much graft in use of temple lands by
private persons of influence.

Stones in city wall dated 1642 - two
years before coming of Manchus. They
are probably the ones which the Catholic
missionaries taught Chinese to make,
and were used for defence at this
time.

Little girl put into collection plate
a large T'en ch'i (Ming) coin.

Pu Shang a Tzu Hais lived in Tsao Tsa
P'o 15 li S-W of Fenchow. Village of
Hsiang Tzu Ynan (where the baby lived) is
so named because Pu Shang's grief after his
sons death which made him blind. The common
phrase 西河之痛 (Grief like that of the
West River) refers to this circumstance.

At village of Chao Chunag (above spinning
mill in valley) in a temple is a stone which
says that when one of the images was set up
there another one appeared beside it.