New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . GERMANS BUILDING RAILWAY BRIDGE IN SHANTUNG. A SHENDZA IN SHANTUNG A Shendza in Shantung ry raw and bleeding abrasions and, in some cases, suppuratingulcers. For a Chinese, our head muleteer was careful of hisanimals and washed them occasionally, but no practicable careapparently can prevent a shendza from making a sore only solace I had was the evident indifference of themules themselves. They had never known anything better,and seemed to take misery as a matter of course. Our party, with the goods we had to carry, for
New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . GERMANS BUILDING RAILWAY BRIDGE IN SHANTUNG. A SHENDZA IN SHANTUNG A Shendza in Shantung ry raw and bleeding abrasions and, in some cases, suppuratingulcers. For a Chinese, our head muleteer was careful of hisanimals and washed them occasionally, but no practicable careapparently can prevent a shendza from making a sore only solace I had was the evident indifference of themules themselves. They had never known anything better,and seemed to take misery as a matter of course. Our party, with the goods we had to carry, for my mission-ary friends were returning to their stations with the expecta-tion of remaining, included three shendzas, two carts and apack-mule for our provisions. But the mule turned out tobe a donkey and unable to carry all we had planned for a largeranimal. While wondering how we were to get our suppliescarried, we learned that a construction train was about to startfor the end of the track, which was said to be Kaomi, fifty-five li beyond Kiao-chou. We got permission to ride on theflat car. In the hope
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