Show traveling in china in north china yon may perhaps have your choice of three methods of traveling yon may if you will take your place in a peking cart a kind of box or cage with no seat the passenger is obliged to squat on the floor cross legged or to sit with legs stretched out at right angles with his body and as the cart jolts over great stones or through the deep ruts in the road he is liable to be bruised black and blue if such a cart looks uninviting you may conclude to try a mule litter thi consists of an oblong box slung between two mules which never keep step and not infrequently quarrel and the sway ing unsteady motion is as bad as that of a in a heavy squall or once more yon may prefer to ride a donkey with a backbone like a razor and probably with no saddle and a single rope for bridle exchange |