It differed in only one particular. Travelling on the Yangtze our fellow travellers would be our own race, Here they were Chinese and Japanese. But we noted a great} difference to what conditions would have been, say, in 2 Chiness inn, In the inn there would little privacy as we found on the steamer and wel would have been pestered by the insatiable curiosity, not only of our fellow travellers, but of half the neighbourhood. On the steamer the other passengers appeared to take no interest in us more than in each other. We were the only Europ-ans but we were not made to feel] that we were speckled birds. We moved around or sat down" andj were not stared at or annoyed in any way. Travelling was infinitely easier than it is in the Chinese quarters of a steamer on the Yang-tae,
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