About 730 am, she discards, the woollen divided skirt and dons a light weight sun-proof coat, a cork spine pad and a Mespot helmet which she Jdescribes og a marvellous protection Jagainst the sun.
On her last trip she included in ber caravan equipment a regulation US, Army cooking kit. "A boy les er timn basket and if the day's trek is too exhausting she often stops for tea, chocolate era tin of cold or heated beans. Her one meal is eaten usually whenever she makes earn, no matter what the hou This is Mrs, Merrick's first visit to Shanghai although she hopes to return again after her Peiping sojourn of several months. She expects to for her home in New York sometime in the summer after a visit in JJopan." When she reaches New York the will have concluded three years continuous. travel, Hey next trip she says will be back fo China for she anticipates a trek into Mongolia,
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