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GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS-LITS, LTD.
TEL. ADDRESS. WAGONLITS. 
CODE: A.B.C. 5th EDITION.
MANAGER WILH. TRENDEL. 

Peking, Nov. 21 1910

from 1 inch to 60 ft [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] high.  But these I must not try to describe in this already ridiculously long screed [[strikethrough]] - [[/strikethrough]].  

I have piles of photographs in process of development and over [[strikethrough]] fall [[/strikethrough]] fifty different rock rubbings of details beyond the power of the camera - made by experts of my little expedition, which I hope [[strikethrough]] will [[/strikethrough]] some day, will help some struggling student to find his way and amuse my friends in the meantime.

The places I have seen have furnished me more light than I dreamed could be seen anywhere. There is one more spot in China which some day I must visit - You will find it on your map - Tatung Fu - very near the outer Great Wall in the province of Shansi. Now, this place is snow-buried, but late March and early April is the proper time to go and if I can get the right sort of a gang to accompany me, I shall go nest year before returning home - My photographer and the two rubbers of inscriptions have volunteered - for a consideration. But Nan, my interpreter - my cook and servant, all three have deserted the good cause - The latter named three say emphatically No - never again!  They have had their fill!

Sinan Fu in Shenei, a point we had hoped to reach after Lung-men, we could not get to because of floods,

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