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“...boxes still.
2 boxes = 1 bed
but they don’t if you are tall, so we must spread them for a pillow
and foot rest, and limply hang between. No peaceful slumbers there !!
—but morning dawns at last, and we get out to stretch our aching
limbs, but it is worth it all, to go home for the holidays, isn’t it?
E .P. Ford.
Travelling in China.
Travelling in Inland China cannot always be described as com-
fortable although when one looks back on past journeying experiences
one realises the humour which lies behind the difficulties and hind-
rances.
Let us follow the travels of Mr. N—, a young and inexperienced
Westerner, as he makes his first trip inland. He leaves the swaying,
jolting train, in which he has been for the last three or four hours,
and finds his sigh of relief speedily turned to dismay when he views
the house-boat in which he is to perform the next stage of his journey.
Nobly resolving to be cheerful however, in spite of circumstances,
Mr. N— makes his way to the boat in which he has...”
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