Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.

What ought they to be in China. Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.