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Title: From Pekin to Calais by land
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933
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Publisher: London Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ow they had driftedto Pekin, goodness only knows. It is not a citymuch affected by the genus. Tlie comforts are notup to their standard. They had ridden from Tungchow under a burn-ing sun and at full gallop, and their weedy,miserable-looking ponies looked ready to drop.The latter evidently only yearned (like the Irish-mans horse), for a wall to lean up against andthink, and looked almost as disconsolate as theirriders, which is saying a good deal. They stood for some time without making aremark. Then, dismounting slowly and cautiously,one of them approached Tallien, who was assistingus with the packs, and in a mild and quaveringvoice inquired if he was manager of the hotel;and on receiving a reply in the affirmative, ifhe and his friend could have a bedroom, andwhether there were any objects of interest to beseen in the neighbourhood ? The Great Wall of China, messieurs, repHedTallien ; but youll find it rather a long ride in oneday. Oh, never mind ! we must go and see it. Can .l! ft;
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PEKIN. ill you get us a guide at once ? We liave to be inTientsin again the day after to-morrow, to sail forJapan. It was only with the greatest difficulty that theywere persuaded to defer their visit to the GreatWall till next day. At dinner that evening, they were great on thesubject of their travels; had been, they informed us,to Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Cairo, Suez, Aden,Colombo, Singapore, and Shanghai, giving us theirimpressions and ideas of each port, and the customsof its inhabitants, in a manner - which, in moreways than one, was highly entertaining. Theywere now going to see the Great Wall ofChina, because their mamma had written to saythat the Times said there was none, and she wassure there was, because her grandfather (who wasa sailor) had told her so, and he had seen it.Then they were going to Japan, San Francisco,Salt Lake City, and New York, then to Liverpooland then London ; and I dont think, said theelder of the two sadly and wearily, we shall evercare to go abro

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