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Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches)
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China)
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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MAD DOGS 203 was at my belt, and before the savage brute could dome damage, I sent a chunk of lead through his ugly-brain. Mad dogs are quite numerous in this section,and cause the death of many people. The Chinesetheory is that the bite of a mad dog breeds a smalldog in the stomach of the victim, which barks andcauses death. One mother, finding her boy bittenby a dog, gave him several Nux Vomica beans,which, instead of curing, killed the unfortunate ladimmediately. Sometimes a dog bites the shadow of aperson, and this is supposed by the superstitiousChinese to be more deadly in its effects than theactual bite. Two main roads to Yunnan City join in this town,one, the Mandarins road from Kwei Chow Province,and the other from Szechuen, by which we came. Herealso is the telegraph, and there is a Government PostOffice in the city. Staying at the same inn were someof the retinue of four French officials who were osten-sibly surveying for the railroad. Whatever theirbusiness may be called,

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