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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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73 74 The Outing Magazine ragged mob gathered in a farm field makinga pretense of work, with bludgeons andhuge swords ready to hand. When wethink of the Chinese, we naturally think ofthe dwarfed specimens seen in Orientalcolonies of America; but the North ofChina native is a huge six-footer, tough asa barbarian, and savage as one, too. Thesun was shining as the white mans partymarched past. The light glinted on thelong nickel-plated barrel of Meyers biggestpistol. The scientist looked straight and Meyer saw farms that had been under irri-gation since before Columbus discoveredAmerica. To the credit of the pagan priestsbe it said, all forms of plant and tree growthwere cherished and encouraged around thetemples. The priests gave Meyer what in-formation they could. The extent to whichforest devastation has gone in China can beinferred from the fact that the Chinese haverooted and grubbed out every vestige oftree growth the size of your finger abovethe graves of their revered ancestors.
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Fene Tai, China. The loaf-headed willow, looking for all the world as if it had been pruned, yetthis is its natural habit. unflinching in the faces of the outlaws.The leader of the brigands nodded to hisfollowers. They dropped their bludgeonsand made still greater pretense of working.Only a few days before, a missionary hadbeen plundered and mauled half to deathat this very pass. When Meyer came to anylittle whitewashed mission house it was likean oasis in the desert, the missionaries wel-coming him like a long-lost brother, theexplorer resting with his hosts for a breath-ing space from the dangers of the road. Was the game worth the candle? Mey-ers traveling expenses for the three yearswere $4,500. Did the scientist see or sendback anything worth all this risk, wortheven the small outlay? In all, 1,200specimens suitable for growth in the UnitedStates were sent back. How these willdevelop cannot be known till tested foreight or ten years, till perhaps the progenyof these plants become

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