The Archive · 1925

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REMINISCENCES OF A- TRAVELLER

My Strange Bedfellow: Hardst of Travel in Unfrequented China By Senvraron."

Some years ago I found myself among a people called the Hua The imple people. intil the misfonaries went among said, Twas flea-ridden, shave and unkempt, a white man so demoralized by insulferably crude conditions of travel that T began to question whether there really was such a place as Piccadilly, or London, or Shanghai, or whether that awful world through which T was slowly wending my miserable way was the only" world I had ever Longing for home, I lay there and watched the others one by one, crowd, drop off to sleep, their sten-

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