. Un Yankee sullo Yangtze : essendo un racconto di un viaggio da Shanghai tramite la centrale unito alla Birmania. di gratitudine. Spero che egli thoughtit, perché egli cavalcava e ho camminato. Comfort, pillole, mountainchair e buoni auspici per lui, ma no grazie per noi !il carattere e i caratteri del cinese areequally difficile da padroneggiare. Questa regione ha beengreatly temuta negli anni precedenti, non vi è alcun dubbio,ma deve ora essere più salutare o forse thesuperstition è di dare il via alla pratica comune buon senso. Ho trascorso la domenica presso il villaggio di montagna di Taiping-pu, dove ci sono i musulmani e la carne bovina, e dove th

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. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. of gratitude. I hope he thoughtit, for he rode and I walked. Comforts, pills, mountainchair and good wishes for him, but no thanks for us !The character and characters of the Chinese areequally difficult to master. This region has beengreatly dreaded in former years, there is no doubt, but it must now be more healthful, or perhaps thesuperstition is giving way to practical common-sense. I spent Sunday at the mountain village of Taiping-pu, where there are Moslems and beef, and where thewomen rise to their feet when a man passes. The airis pure. The hamlet lies about seven thousand eighthundred feet above the sea, in the midst of woodedhills and beautiful scenery. There is certainly lessiniquity in Mohammedan than in Buddhist villages. & — in % m =? thousand learnings are not worth one seeing. CHAPTER XX. CHINESE FAITH IN FOREIGN MEDICINE—TENG-YUEH PLAIN—A LEGEND OF TATUNG—THEORIGIN OF PEAT—CHINESE BILLS—WANT OFMISSIONS IN TENGYUEH—BLUE FRIEND THREE—A PEARL OF PRICE.. Cooking Range. ^^^^^HREE red-coated soldiers bivouaced^^| comfortably on the porch of the official rest house in the mountain£4 ? village of Taipingpu. They built m 8 a fire before our door and erected some split bamboo matting tohead off the chilly mountain wind.By half-past three in the morningwe were off with torches of splitbamboo tied in bundles eight feetlong. The descent of thirty li to the Schweli or goldenwater, began directly we left the hamlet. Our path layin a sunken road, full of the most surprising curves.The rain, pouring down heavily, made uncertainstepping for our coolies, as we passed under archesformed by overhanging trees. It would be a charmingroad, I have no doubt, on a clear, warm day. Ourtorches were exhausted when we reached BambooHamlet, but Mohammedan Horse, the elder at Taiping-pu, had foreseeen this, so we had to wait merely tolight new flambeaux. In

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