A Wayfarer in China

A Wayfarer in China
Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia

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A Wayfarer in China by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

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1913

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228

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A Wayfarer in China
Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia

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A fascinating and timely travel book and an important contribution to our knowledge of the Chinese empire.

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ded by an escort of Annamese policemen. These latter had a decidedly ladylike, genteel air with their hair smoothly brushed and twisted in a low knot at the back of the neck, the whole bound round with a black kerchief laid in neat folds. Their uniform was of dark blue woollen set off by putties of a lighter blue, and their appearance was decidedly shipshape. I talked with one of the Frenchmen returning from an official visit to Fort Bayard. He seemed to have little faith in the new settlement, declaring the Government had poured in money like water, and with no adequate return.

It is more than a century since France began to interest herself in this part of the world, dreaming dreams of an Eastern empire to offset the one she had just lost in America. Then came the French Revolution, and the dream went the way of many more substantial things, and it was not until the days of the Second Empire that Napoleon III, looking east and west, again took up the question. Little by little the French strengthened

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