Category: Travel Writing
_My grandmother's curios--Camels and elephants--Dr Morrison--Chinese in Australia--Feared for his virtues--Racial animosity--Great Northern Plain--A city of silence--A land of exile--The Holy Sea--Frost flowers on a birch forest--Chaos at Manchuria and Kharbin--Japanese effici...
_Numerous walled towns--The dirt of them--T'ung Chou--Romance of the evening light--My own little walled city--The gateways--Hospitable landlady--Bald heads--My landlady's room-...
13. CHAPTER XIII--IN THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS_Etiquette of the Chinese cart--Ruined city--The building of the wall--The advice of a mule--A catastrophe--The failing of the Peking cart--Beautiful scenery--Industrious people...
21. CHAPTER XXI--FROM THE SAN SHAN AN_An old temple--Haunted--Wolf with green eyes--Loneliness--Death of missionaries--Fear--Sanctuaries--“James Buchanan”--Valiant farmers--Autumn tints--Famous priest--Sacrifice of...
5. CHAPTER V--THE FUNERAL OF AN EMPRESS_A good republican--The restricted Empire of the Manchus--Condign punishment--Babylon--An Adventurous Chinaman--The entrance to the Forbidden City--The courtyards of Babylon--A...
17. CHAPTER XVII--THE VALLEY OF THE DEAD GODSLegend of the birth of Ch'ien Lung--A valley of temples--Wells--A temple fair--Hawking--Suicide's rock--Five hundred and eight Buddhas--The Po-Ta-La--Supercilious elephants--Ste...
10. CHAPTER X--THE TUNGLING_A Peking cart as a cure for influenza--Difficulties of a narrow road--The dead have right of way--The unlucky women--Foot binding--“Beat you, beat you”--Lost luggage--“You must...
8. CHAPTER VIII--TWO CHARITIES_The manufacturing of the blind--“Before born”--The Rev. Hill Murray--“The Message”--Geography--Marriage--A brave little explorer--Massacre of the blind--Deposits of one tael--A...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--IN A WUPAN_The difficulties of the laundry--A friend in need--A strange picnic party--The authority of the parent--Travelling in a mule litter--Rain--A frequented highway--Yellow oiled pa...
2. CHAPTER II--A CITY OF THE AGES_Chien Men Railway Station--Driver Chow--“Urgent speed in high disdain”--Peking dust storm--Joys of a bath--The glories of Peking--The Imperial City--The Forbidden City--Memoria...
14. CHAPTER XIV--TO THE GREEKS, FOOLISHNESS_Missionary compound--Prayer--Reputed dangers of the way--The German girl--Midwife--The Bible as a guide--“My yoke is easy, My burden is light”--A harem--Helping the sick and af...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE LEGATION QUARTER OF PEKING_A forgotten tragedy--The troops--“Lest We Forget”--The fortified wall--“No low-class Chinese”--The last thing in the way of insults--A respecter of power--Racing stables--Pekin...
20. CHAPTER XX--THE WAYS OF THE CHINESE SERVANT_The heat of Peking---The wall by moonlight--Tongshan--“Your devoted milkman”--The eye of the mistress--A little fort--In case of an outbreak--The Temple of the Sleeping Buddha-...
1. CHAPTER I--ACROSS THE OLD WORLD_My grandmother's curios--Camels and elephants--Dr Morrison--Chinese in Australia--Feared for his virtues--Racial animosity--Great Northern Plain--A city of silence--A land of e...
7. CHAPTER VII--ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD_Courteous Americans--Nankou Pass--Beacon towers--Inaccessible hills--“Balbus has built a wall”--Tiny towns--“Watchman, what of the night?”--Deserted watch-towers---Thoughtful C...
16. CHAPTER XVI--A PLEASURE-GROUND OF THE MANCHUS_A return call--Ceremonies--A dog-robbing suit--Difficulties of conversation--A treat for the amah--The British Ambassador at Jehol in the eighteenth century--The last stages of...
3. CHAPTER III--THE WALLS AND GATES OF BABYLON_The mud walls of Kublai Khan--Only place for a comfortable promenade--The gardens on the walls--Guarding the city from devils--The dirt of the Chinese--The gates--The camels--I...
12. CHAPTER XII--THE NINE DRAGON TEMPLE|We were fairly in the mountains when we left Tsung Hua Chou. As we crawled along slowly, and I trust with dignity, though dignity is not my strong point, I looked up to the hil...
6. CHAPTER VI--A TIME OF REJOICING_The charm of Peking--A Chinese theatre--Electric light--The custodian of the theatre--Bargaining for a seat--The orchestra--The scenery of Shakespeare--Realistic gesture--A cit...
9. CHAPTER IX--A CHINESE INN_The start for Jehol--Tuan--A Peking cart--Chinese roads--A great highway--Chances of camping out--“Room for ten thousand merchant guests”--Human occupancy--Dust of ages--Eyes a...
15. CHAPTER XV--A VISIT TO THE TARTAR GENERAL_Hsiung Hsi Ling, Premier of China--Preparations for a call--A cart of State--An elderly mule--Waiting in the gate--The yam en--Mr Wu, the secretary--“Hallo, Missus!”--The power...
19. CHAPTER XIX--A RIVER PORT IN BABYLON|They tell me I must not talk about a river port in Babylon, because Babylon was a city not a country, and it had no river port, but in that valley of Mesopotamia there must hav...