'YI.—The Author Reduced to a Shadow, but Cured and Back at Work: Wonderfal Tri ip to Chungan: Travelling Chamber of Horrors pon it all at once—the country into which we were going—flashing out in all its grand and rogged beauty as we topped the last rise out of the "crater" where we had one never knows when one may find himself peering into the glassy, lidless eyes of some villainous looking reptile, venomous or otherwise. Pope had already bagged a considerable collection spent the night. Peak after peak showing a wide variety of loca By F. Taxa Tt was a wonderful day for me when the doctor, after his usual morning examination, snapped shat] his watch and announced that was cured. For it meant that in avery litre longer - 1 would be free to take up the trail again and work my way up river into the "hinterland of Fukien. And ie" was a, still more wonderful day, a week Inter, when Tas carried down and taid. in the boat, along with other pieces of indispensable baggage, for our] continued up river trip. Twas Stil woefully weak and s0 emaciat, that it was necessary to stand the same place twice to make one shadow. But was I not off on adventure bent? And, as I lay. back on the blankets lackadaisical lassitude and watched the boat being poled out into deep water, Twas thoroughly happy and] contented with the world, But it was to be a matter of days only before I should have regained all that' had been lost and more too for the fever was gone for good and I had the appetite of a starved wolf,
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