"At Chengchow, where Sir Robert paid a visit with the young A D.C. to the Military i sioner, hours. Sleepy, unshaven, breakfastness, I determined to see something of the ci y. so got Mr. Kong C'Shunpae's" "man, who came as a. sort of Chinese secretary) to go with me. After a long dd in the cold_ morning, we were satisfied that: Chengchow was not much of a place, and we happily found a French cafe, where we had ham and eggs and coffee and toast. Sir Réibert. had then returned from his official call, so we told him about the cafe, but he was on fast, and only Tady Ho Tung and the young A. D.C. partook of breakfast. Sir Robert and I went to @ nearby hairdressing saloon, where the Chinese barber shaved me most atrociously, making me bleed on the lip and chin. I looked up a couple of curio shops at that early hour, but found nothing worth buying.
"We left Chengchow at about 9 o'clock. Very soon we ran inthe wonderful loess countr;
that my eyes should see what I and T was a good bit col had read and heard so much about. Tmagine " country of thousands of square miles of elevated land of a peculiar sandstone formation, and picture to yourself deep chasms and corro-
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