From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . money. The men at onceproceeded to spend a part of it on their morn-ing meal, for it would be strictly against allcustom and precedent for them not to start onan empty stomach. Their first meal for theday is always eaten after they have travelledsome short distance. Their breakfast finished, they request you totake your place in the chair once more; theypick it up and continue on the way for about anhour when they stop to rest for a few minutesat some roadside ha
From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . money. The men at onceproceeded to spend a part of it on their morn-ing meal, for it would be strictly against allcustom and precedent for them not to start onan empty stomach. Their first meal for theday is always eaten after they have travelledsome short distance. Their breakfast finished, they request you totake your place in the chair once more; theypick it up and continue on the way for about anhour when they stop to rest for a few minutesat some roadside halting place, for Chinaabounds with such. They smoke their nativetobacco, and quite possibly drink tea. For thenext hour, perhaps you prefer to walk insteadof ride. Indeed, to the writer, it would be mostacute misery to sit cramped in the chair all day,nor have the men any objection to carrying itempty. In this fashion we journeyed along the road,arriving about noon at a walled city. Here weentered an inn. The chair was set down in themain courtyard while the baskets were carriedinto the inns best room, which boasted a board 17. SEDAN CHAIR. Sprague, photo. floor instead of the hard-packed clay one fre-quently finds. The provisions were unpacked,eggs and vegetables were purchased if needed,and the servant proceeded to achieve a verycreditable, meal, doubly welcome after outdoorexercise. All inns are provided with furnacesfor cooking, where a fire is kept up twelvehours in the twenty-four. Meanwhile, the 18 coolies were eating their rice. After the ser-vant had washed the dishes and repacked thebasket, we started again, having been delayedperhaps an hour. About dusk we arrived atanother walled city where we went to the bestinn for the night. The noon program was re-peated, except that after supper, the beddingwas unpacked and arranged on a bedstead. Inthe morning we started once more on an emptystomach, and, after travelling for an hour or so,stopped for breakfast. Such is the me
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