. Life and light for woman. I had during the sum-mer. Everyone knows how scarce animals are in Foochow, ex-cept buffalo cows, and I never heard of a foreigner trying toride a buffalo cow. Donkey riding at Peitaiho was one of thechief excitements. Everyone seemed ready to risk life and limbin this adventure, limb being the more exposed of the two. Myfirst ride was one morning to the sand dunes before had heard the dunes familiarly spoken of as though they werenear at hand, and not knowing how far off they were by donkeyI ordered my beast the night before with the rest. Well, Iforbea
. Life and light for woman. I had during the sum-mer. Everyone knows how scarce animals are in Foochow, ex-cept buffalo cows, and I never heard of a foreigner trying toride a buffalo cow. Donkey riding at Peitaiho was one of thechief excitements. Everyone seemed ready to risk life and limbin this adventure, limb being the more exposed of the two. Myfirst ride was one morning to the sand dunes before had heard the dunes familiarly spoken of as though they werenear at hand, and not knowing how far off they were by donkeyI ordered my beast the night before with the rest. Well, Iforbear to dwell on that journey—my first by donkey-?back—how my little beast balked atevery bit of water, (andwe forded numberlessstreams ), while the duneswithdrew farther intothe distance as we pro-ceeded. I will simplystate that when I got offthat donkey I wasnt atall sure my knees wouldever speak to eachother again. But theyhad to walk home to-gether, because we got A Common Sight in North China. tOO drenched tO 1922] Modes of Travel in China 177 This leads me to tell what a wet season this was in the course, wherever tourists go the weather is unusual duringtheir stay, and this summer the dry North was visited with suchheavy rains that the resulting floods delayed us all in getting the floods and the fighting around Hankow, our gettinghome at all may be looked upon as a miracle. To continue about animals. I didnt get a chance to ride acamel in Peking. They say it isnt done, but I could imagine nogreater satisfaction than to be able to manage such a super-cilious looking creature from a position astride his back. Itwould be, to my thinking, a form of dramatic justice that such asuperior beast should be under somebody. I never saw anythingso disdainful as the toss of the head of a Peking camel. A de-gree of intimacy with the Mongolian breed of horses was grantedme in a brief visit at Tehchow. There they told me there was nobetter way of seeing the
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