. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey ;And these have smaller still to bite em ;And so proceed ad By the bed in my room there was a fence-likt boxcontaining a fish-shaped oilcloth contrivance with theImperial Dragon painted on it. This was the emblemof authority. The stockade is twenty-five li from theBritish boundary. Outside, at the lower end, an opiumden drives a brisk trade, and further down, not half a li,is the Kachin village of Lower Bhiti wi
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey ;And these have smaller still to bite em ;And so proceed ad By the bed in my room there was a fence-likt boxcontaining a fish-shaped oilcloth contrivance with theImperial Dragon painted on it. This was the emblemof authority. The stockade is twenty-five li from theBritish boundary. Outside, at the lower end, an opiumden drives a brisk trade, and further down, not half a li,is the Kachin village of Lower Bhiti with ten Chief, Kin Ta Mong, called with ten of his hench-men to salute me, and brought a present of fourteenhens eggs. A rupee deposited in his hand as a giftgreatly pleased him. I asked a gentleman whatimpressed him most between Tengyueh and ready reply was The Kachin villages and thegreat houses ; no such houses anywhere else in of these long, bamboo, grass-roofed houses wasover seventy-five feet long, and suggested dwellings ofthe Lower Fly River natives in New
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