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buy copies in the foreign settlements. Canton is amazing! And already I am dreaming of some old inland cities lying between Saigon and Peking which, some day, I would like to search as I did Canton and Shanghai, only more slowly and thoroughly. From Egypt to the temples of Ceylon and Java and thence to the treasure houses of China and Japan is to me an experience of indescribable delight. Our steamer is several days behind her schedule and will not stop at Nagasaki - at Moji she coals, passes through the Inland sea and if weather and tide and daylight favors she will send some passengers off in lighter at Kobe, thence direct