. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. lxii. AN AGILE MOSLEM 185 body guard. The road lay up the mountain, steep,slippery, at times muddy, but mostly covered withsnow, the scenery being beautiful and the air next day we made one hundred and twenty am inclined to think that in high altitudes walkingis more tiring than at the sea level, until one is accus-tomed to the rarified atmosphere. The previous nightI slept eight thousand two hundred feet above the tide,and that night over six thousand feet. These fac
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. lxii. AN AGILE MOSLEM 185 body guard. The road lay up the mountain, steep,slippery, at times muddy, but mostly covered withsnow, the scenery being beautiful and the air next day we made one hundred and twenty am inclined to think that in high altitudes walkingis more tiring than at the sea level, until one is accus-tomed to the rarified atmosphere. The previous nightI slept eight thousand two hundred feet above the tide,and that night over six thousand feet. These factswell indicate the general position of the road. Thecountry is mostly bare and sparsely inhabited. Laterin the day we passed out of the Mohammedan countryand again entered the region of idols. The last Moslemescort was sixty years of age, and ran like a deer downthe rough mountain path to the Ox Fence or NiulanRiver. His gait resembled Marcus Dods descriptionof Mohammed :— His step suggested that of a mandescending a hill, and he walked with such extremerapidity that those accompanying him were kept at
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