The turbaned pilgrims wit return to Shanghai next April or May. That 4s, some of them will, for many are old and feeble they will be glad to die after they have reached Mecca. The group sailing from Shanghai in the s. Asphalion included " camel drivers, rafismen, furriers, farmers, and hordsmen, ranging in age from a wide-eyed li-year-old boy to his weak and trembling 87-year-old grandfather, "Another pilgrim, Known to many in Shanghai, was 'Ma Liang-chen, the former, personal servant of Mr. G. Findlay' Andrew during the latter's sojourn in and frequent visits to Kansu Province. 'Smartly dressed in yellow turban and Tong black frock coat, Mr. Ma, or, as he is known to hundreds of travellers in. China's north-west, "Mr. Donkey," was more than busy help-Ing his' fellow pilgrim to spread their prayer-rugs and set up their
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