id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27481 Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia .txt text/plain 85762 4091 78 cross the great rivers and ranges of western Yunnan, a weary month-long Our day's stage usually ended in a good-sized town. friendly way, generally stopping after I had passed to ask my coolies and a century ago the Chinese frontier stopped at Tachienlu, but to-day Later in the day we left the river, and crossing a head ridge or pass While in Chia-ting I crossed the river one day to see the great Buddha Kalgan stands hard-by the Great Wall; here China and Mongolia meet, and wild-looking men on sturdy little ponies told of an open country. these people, however, looked like Western men, and one simply could not a few Chinese, with a little group of frightened-looking Mongols. Or put it in another way: with Chinese and man of the West alike, that has lived a long time, the Chinese have found out a great many ./cache/27481.txt ./txt/27481.txt