. A'Chu and other stories. STEAMSHIP CHINA On this ship many missionaries havesailed from the Pacific Coast for the CHINESE JUNK UNDER FULL SAIL 36 GETTING USED TO STRANGE METHODSOF TRAVEL MANY strange things we find in this land of theFar East. Perhaps one of the most trying to getused to is the slow ways of traveling. So long as wekeep near the shore of Old Pacific, everything goeswell; but when we are obliged to travel by land,traveling becomes slow. Ocean steamers fairly swarm along the coast less than four or five large steamship companiesoperate lines of transportation
. A'Chu and other stories. STEAMSHIP CHINA On this ship many missionaries havesailed from the Pacific Coast for the CHINESE JUNK UNDER FULL SAIL 36 GETTING USED TO STRANGE METHODSOF TRAVEL MANY strange things we find in this land of theFar East. Perhaps one of the most trying to getused to is the slow ways of traveling. So long as wekeep near the shore of Old Pacific, everything goeswell; but when we are obliged to travel by land,traveling becomes slow. Ocean steamers fairly swarm along the coast less than four or five large steamship companiesoperate lines of transportation between England, France,and Germany at one end and Japan at the other. Thereare also several lines operating between America andthese ports. Except for the nuisance of seasickness,one may be as comfortable these days on shipboard asin his own home. Besides these long lines of steamships which keep tothe open sea, there are European, Chinese, and Japanesecompanies operating lines of smaller steamers which runnearer shore and stop at all coast cities of course it is liable to be foggy along the coast, andthe
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