. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. I hi BOAT STATION AT SUI-FU. The Characters mean, Thi HEADOUARTr RS O] nil SAVING APPARATUS. 2-5 THE PROTECTING TICKET 131 was an opium den, and between the two a place ofworship and an idol. Over the altar this inscriptionwas displayed, Happiness, Emolument, are the three things the Chinaman longs for andhopes to obtain—happiness in this life, a remunerativeoffice, and a good old age. The Yamen escort, which was temporarily delayed,caught up with me. The
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. I hi BOAT STATION AT SUI-FU. The Characters mean, Thi HEADOUARTr RS O] nil SAVING APPARATUS. 2-5 THE PROTECTING TICKET 131 was an opium den, and between the two a place ofworship and an idol. Over the altar this inscriptionwas displayed, Happiness, Emolument, are the three things the Chinaman longs for andhopes to obtain—happiness in this life, a remunerativeoffice, and a good old age. The Yamen escort, which was temporarily delayed,caught up with me. The head man carried, in animmense official envelope, a Protecting Ticket,which is issued from place to place by the following translation of the huge manuscript wasmade by a local friend :— This Protecting Ticketfrom Luchow Magistrates Court, in the Province ofSzechuen, to be for protection this day, has been issuedfor the great American Great Man Guy. The carrierto mutually protect and carry this ticket. The soldierswill accompany to the Southern Peak City to the pre-sence of the Magistrates Court. Runners are cautioned to bring back characters tothe Chief of Police at Luchow in order that h
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