. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. , would send two ofhis sons along with the servants bearing monsterlanterns like balloons to light my way to the BaptistMission House. A proper man, as one shall see in a summers ft --& % M fife They drank blood and ate herbs, nestling in trees and dwellingin caves.—A ncient Verse. CHAPTER X. A ROYAL WELCOME—ROCK CAVES—THE VIRTUES OF BY PROXY —A STREET MELEE—ABORIGINAL CHIEFTAINS—OLD HERO BENEVOLENCE— LACQUER J HE moment the West Gate was swung Iopen, at exactly seven in
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. , would send two ofhis sons along with the servants bearing monsterlanterns like balloons to light my way to the BaptistMission House. A proper man, as one shall see in a summers ft --& % M fife They drank blood and ate herbs, nestling in trees and dwellingin caves.—A ncient Verse. CHAPTER X. A ROYAL WELCOME—ROCK CAVES—THE VIRTUES OF BY PROXY —A STREET MELEE—ABORIGINAL CHIEFTAINS—OLD HERO BENEVOLENCE— LACQUER J HE moment the West Gate was swung Iopen, at exactly seven in the morning,my curious caravan filed out of thebusy city of Suifu. Fifteen minutesbefore, I had left the comfortablequarters of the American BaptistMission. A dressed stone arch, erectedto the memorv of virtuous widows,spanned Ta Chio Street, beyondwhich we turned a corner with thetemple of the god of Literature on the right. Myoverland procession was composed of two limberbamboo mountain chairs, four short, stout coolies,eight thin soldiers and two Yamen Runners. Itmade a pronounced impression, not the least impres-sive feature being the foreigners dressed in the garbof their native lands. Early risers occupied theirtime posting red strips of paper containing charactersfor New Year time, on their doorposts. After passingthrough Heavenly Bath, the highway extended be-tween fields, irrigated and growing marsh grass in 148 HUMAN TREADMILLS tufts. Human-power treadmills, framed to admittwo coolies when at work, were in use ho
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