Convalescenee was rapid but there was a slight relapse when Twas charged the equivalent of Mex. $5 for plate of soup Inthe dining ear. The high prices. charged there were partly relative to the bed exchange and "partly designed to encourage travellers to purchase a book of meal tickets for the whole trip, The cost fof these worked out at about $12 a day and the three meals a day were adequate if not very varied, The further Bast we got the more Inierest my. travelling companions showed in things Western. My aluminium kettle Toft meat Kaneko as 8 parting gift {0 a grizzled engineer Wwho had feted as compartment me terpreter for three days by virtue of hig slight knowledge of German.
"The sueees fou of the trip was on English breakfast sausage encased red cellophane, Tt was passed round, prodded, admired and sampled uring ils very short life Anglist Sausage a newcomer entered, the talk variably came round to the: Anufliski sausage and it made another round by universal request, In return, 1 was offered some excellent mealy home-smoked salmon,—some, of so excellent well-thumbed squares of salted pork fat, curdied milk and Come repellent locking, sweets which "The sun passed over our heads in a big are and sank behind the hills while we played ving-et-un for the last of our kapoks and tried to forget thet the DICK. steamer would leave Dairen the next day without us.
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