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By five o'clock we were on our way across Petchili as if nothing had happened. I have nothing to say regarding this latter half of the journey, during which the Chinese driver to do him justice in no way endeavored to make up for lost time.
It is only in the vicinity of this city that the art of the engineer has had a serious struggle with nature in the costly and troublesome road through the provinces of Kan-Sou, Chan-Si and Petchili. As we go along I must mention a few of the principal stations at which the train stops to take in coal and water.
It measures about a yard and a half in height, and a yard in width and depth. It has been placed here with the care required by these words in Russian, written on the side, "Glass Fragile Keep from damp," and then directions, "Top Bottom," which have been respected. And then there is the address, "Mademoiselle Zinca Klork, Avenue Cha-Coua, Pekin, Petchili, China."
After descending to the southeast toward Lan-Tcheou, the wall runs to the northeast, covering the provinces of Kian-Sou, Chan-si, and Petchili to the north of Pekin. Here it is little more than an embankment with a tower here and there, mostly in ruins.
This Hoang Ho is the yellow river, the famous yellow river, which, after a course of four thousand four hundred kilometres, pours its muddy waters into the Gulf of Petchili. "Is not its mouth near Tien Tsin, where the baron thinks of catching the mail for Yokohama?" asks the major. "That is so," I reply. "He will miss it," says the actor. "Unless he trots, our globe-trotter."
When the box arrives it will be empty empty as a heart from which all the blood has escaped. I leave the Hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams about eleven o'clock, I call one of those Chinese carriages, which look like palanquins on wheels, I give the address of Mademoiselle Klork, and I am on the way. You know, that among the eighteen provinces of China Petchili occupies the most northerly position.
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