. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ng one day shefell asleep and her weary head rested on herloom, where she saw, in a dream, her father andtwo brothers and their respective junks, periledin a terrific storm. She agonized to rescue themfrom danger, and seized her brothers junks, onein each hand, and her fathers in her mouth. Asshe dragged them to the shore, she heard hermothers voi
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ng one day shefell asleep and her weary head rested on herloom, where she saw, in a dream, her father andtwo brothers and their respective junks, periledin a terrific storm. She agonized to rescue themfrom danger, and seized her brothers junks, onein each hand, and her fathers in her mouth. Asshe dragged them to the shore, she heard hermothers voice calling, and, with dutiful spirit,but great forgetfulness of her fathers danger,she opened her mouth to answer, and awokefrom her dream ; but in a few days tidings cameof a dreadful stoiin and the loss of the fathersjunk and the safety of the brothers. Her dreamhas given hei- moi-e honor than Pharaohs gaveJoseph, and the Virgin Mary has no loftier offerings are made to her by boatmen,after every deliverance from peril. One of herassistants is Favorable-wind-ear, and tlieother, Thousand-mile-eye. The temple on Pine Street is devoted to KwnnTut, the god of war. It is in the building ofthe Kong Chow Asylum, and has connected with. it a room for ancestral worship. The asylumhas a large hail tor the public meetings ot thecompany. The stranger in San Francisco will visit thoti;mples on Clay Street and Dupont Street, ifno others. The Clay Street has taken away someof the tinsel that formerly adorned the one on Du-pont Street, and is the niost elaborate, havingcost about ■^30,000, and is dedicated to the worshipof Kwan Tai, and this same god occupies thecentral place in the Dupont Street Temple. He is the tno<t popular of all the gods, and isalwai/s red-faced, with a long, black beard. On the walls of every temple and about theentrances are seen red placards—the records ofthe gifts, made for establishing and supporting Heathen Chinee, unlike the AmericanCh
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