Anthony The Absolute

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Merwin Samuel. Anthony The Absolute

At Sea – March 28th

Yokohama, Grand Hotel, March 20th

Grand Hotel, Yokohama, March 30th, Early Afternoon

Midnight – Still the 30th

On the Railway, Coasting the Island Sea – March 31st

Peking, April 5th, Midday

April 5th – night

Hôtel de Chine, Peking, April 5th – or 6th

April 6th. Night

April 7th

April 8th. Noon

Night

April 10th

April 11th

April 12th

April 12th – very late

April 14th

April 14, (continued)

April 15th, 11 A. M

April 15th. Night

April 16th. Morning,

April 17th

Grand Hôtel des Wagon-lits. April 17th. Later

April 18th. Morning. (At the Wagon-lits)

Late Afternoon. (still the 18th.)

April 19th. Noon

Same date

Same date

Still the 19th. Very late

April 20th

April 21st. Early

Same date. Night

On the Steamer, “Hsing Mien,”, Yangtze River. May 1st

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IT was past three o’clock to-day when the ship came to anchor and the steam tender brought us ashore. It interested me to see the rickshaws with their bare-legged coolies. By the time we had ridden along the Bund to the hotel and secured our rooms it was four o’clock. We went down to the “lounge,” Crocker and I, and had tea brought in. Or I did. He drank a whisky and Tan San. Then pretty soon he drank another.

Several couples from the ship were about, but not many of the men who were traveling alone.

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“Wha’ ees eet?” she asked, nodding toward the instrument. She spoke in quite understandable English, though with a strong accent.

I told her it was a phonograph, and asked if she would sing into it. She seemed pleased.

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