The Feathered People are very tall, and are covered with fluffy down.  They have wings in place of arms, and can fly short distances.  On the points of the wings are claws, which serve as hands.  Their noses are like beaks.  Gentle and timid, they do not leave their own country.  They have good voices, and like to sing ballads.  If one wishes to visit this people he must go far to the south-east and then inquire.  There is also the Land of the People with Three Faces, who live in the centre of the Great Waste and never die; the Land of the Three-heads, east of the K’un-lun Mountains; the Three-body Country, the inhabitants of which have one head with three bodies, three arms and but two legs; and yet another where the people have square heads, broad shoulders, and three legs, and the stones on the land are all gold and jade.

The People of the Punctured Bodies

Another community is said to be composed of people who have holes through their chests.  They can be carried about on a pole put through the orifice, or may be comfortably hung upon a peg.  They sometimes string themselves on a rope, and thus walk out in file.  They are harmless people, and eat snakes that they kill with bows and arrows, and they are very long-lived.

The Women’s Kingdom

The Women’s Kingdom, the country inhabited exclusively by women, is said to be surrounded by a sea of less density than ordinary water, so that ships sink on approaching the shores.  It has been reached only by boats carried thither in whirlwinds, and but few of those wrecked on its rocks have survived and returned to tell of its wonders.  The women have houses, gardens, and shops.  Instead of money they use gems, perforated and strung like beads.  They reproduce their kind by sleeping where the south wind blows upon them.

The Land of the Flying Cart

Situated to the north of the Plain of Great Joy, the Land of the Flying Cart joins the Country of the One-armed People on the south-west and that of the Three-bodied People on the south-east.  The inhabitants have but one arm, and an additional eye of large size in the centre of the forehead, making three eyes in all.  Their carts, though wheeled, do not run along the ground, but chase each other in mid-air as gracefully as a flock of swallows.  The vehicles have a kind of winged framework at each end, and the one-armed occupants, each grasping a flag, talk and laugh one to another in great glee during what might be called their aerial recreation were it not for the fact that it seems to be their sole occupation.

The Expectant Wife

A curious legend is told regarding a solitary, weird figure which stands out, rudely weatherworn, from a hill-top in the pass called Shao-hsing Gorge, Canton Province.  This point of the pass is called Lung-men, or Dragon’s Mouth, and the hill the Husband-expecting Hill.  The figure itself, which is called the Expectant Wife, resembles that of a woman.  Her bent head and figure down to the waist are very lifelike.