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Population of Szech-wan. Minerals found. Salt and other things. The Chinese inn: how it holds the palm for unmitigated filth. Description of the rooms. Szech-wan and Yün-nan caravanserais. Need of a camp bed. Toileting in unsecluded publicity. How the author was met at market towns. How the days do not get dull.
The Chinese I refer to the Chinese of interior provinces such as Szech-wan are realizing that they hold an obscure position.
After Tong-ch'uan-fu, right on to Burma, the rate of coolie pay varies considerably. Szech-wan people a mercenary lot. Adaptability to trading. None but nature lovers should come to Western China. The life of the Nomad. The opening of China, and some impressions. China's position in the eyes of her own people. Industrialism, railways, and the attitude of the populace.
I stood up and fronted them, and replied, through T'ong, that I could not stay the night, that I would be pleased to tolerate the howling of the theatre for one half of an hour, that it would have given me the greatest pleasure to take their photographs, but, alas! my films were not many. They looked glum, I smiled serenely. This is Chinesey. Szech-wan and Yün-nan. Coolies and their loads.
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