The sleeping accommodation on the! /Hangchow-Nanchang line, he said, 1s lof the ordinary convertible day coach {sype, but on the Canton line are some Jor the most luxurious sleepers in [China frst, second and third class. JOn the particular train he used, two Jcoaches containing railway' officials Jhad been attached from the Peiping-Hankow line, but he does not think. that this had much effect" on the Jauality of the food, which he said [was excellent, and of foreign-siyle.
'And it is' remarkably cheap. A third class steeper for the 30-hour journey to Canton costs $7.80 for the fare, and $1 for the berth, this fare being doubled for second' class ae: trate his point, He returned from Hongkong, it is true, by steamer, but that was merely for the sake of variety, and he is now looking forward to' fresh train journeys, possibly up in Shansi and Suiyuan, where, he said, with a laugh, hho might come upon the lest tomb of Genghis Khan,
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