If you knew them you would sympathize with us." But Christophe could find nothing but disgust with both: for he did not hold that the baseness of the oppressed was any excuse for that of the oppressor. Only too frequently had he met at the Stevens' types of the rich dull middle-class that Roussin described, "... L'anime triste di coloro, Che visser senza infamia esenza lodo,..."

The Spanish description of seasons is as follows: Seis meses de lodo six months of mud. Seis meses de polvo six months of dust. Seis meses de todo six months of everything. The northern islands lie in the track of the typhoons which, developing in the Pacific, sweep over the China Sea from NE. to SW. during the southwest monsoon.