Mr. J. MeCarthy's personal narrative of his pedestrian excursion from Hankow to Bhamo has been published in full in the August number of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, and Monthly Record of Geography. The paper and the remarks made subsequent to its reading cover nineteen pages of the periodical just named, yet except on one point no information of any value whatever is added to the slowly accumulating stock of knowledge about China, That excepted point is however, a very important one. McCarthy has established the fact that a penceable, unobtrusive foreigner, speak ing an intelligible dialect, wearing the native dress and carrying no weapons offensive or defensive, can cross China from border to border, meeting only civility and kindness from the common people, and unimpeded by officials even
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