A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . way, which I have always shunnedas derogatory to the dignity of the gospel, though I do notdeny that it may be admissible in some cases. There is thetheater, answered they; perhaps that will suit you. Conducting me to a vast temple, which bore the inscription,Shil tsu Miao ( To our First Ancestor ), they pointed me toa covered stage, from which I discoursed, to many hundreds EXCLRSIOXS IX THE PROVIXCE iii of listeners, of our first ancestor and the God who madehim. At a village oh the road I addressed a company under theshade of a tree, which, by
A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . way, which I have always shunnedas derogatory to the dignity of the gospel, though I do notdeny that it may be admissible in some cases. There is thetheater, answered they; perhaps that will suit you. Conducting me to a vast temple, which bore the inscription,Shil tsu Miao ( To our First Ancestor ), they pointed me toa covered stage, from which I discoursed, to many hundreds EXCLRSIOXS IX THE PROVIXCE iii of listeners, of our first ancestor and the God who madehim. At a village oh the road I addressed a company under theshade of a tree, which, by the way, was not I had finished, a respectable old man invited me to goto his house and breakfast, to which I readily consented. Thehouse was well-built, commodious, and clean; the occupantbeing one of the better class of farmers who cultivate their ownground. The table was spread with a variety that betokenedgood living, rice-wine not being wanting. To me, however,there was a great want; there was no fork with which to. A FAMILY AT BREAKFAST. take up the shrimps, eels, and chicken, which formed the chiefdishes. My host, seeing me embarrassed in trying to conveyto my mouth small morsels with two round sticks (the chop-sticks in universal use), made a sign to his daughter, whobrought me the spindle of her spinning-wheel. With that I wasable to spear my eels and shrimps with sufficient ease, but ina way that must have appeared uncivilized to Chinese , there were no other guests and no spectators. 112 A CYCLE OF CATHAY From Brownsville it was my intention to proceed south-ward to a city on the sea-coast called Ninghai. Already onthe way, I was deterred from going farther by learning that arumor had preceded me to the effect that a foreign generalwas coming with forty men, to help the people of a fron-tier village against those of a neighboring town, with whomthey were waging one of those private wars so common inChina. The war, it seems, had spru
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