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The villages are all stank
filthy & foul smelling
pathways exceptions Pugs
prows in its roads, chickens
& dogs add to the fells,
The children are all dirty
& rummled on rags,
Poverty is everywhere
without any good house or
shiny play of wealth.
The physical types wereal
very Chinese no slaved
people. Many have high deep
noses & are dark in
making type, Yankee,
tall 6 ft, but some are
fleshy or really large
They all dress in blue turban men
a small black skull cap
surrounded by a red towel.
The packing methods used
here are not constant admiring.
The loads set balanced on the
saddle tree and no cinch is
used past are they ever readjusted
on the road. All they sit firmly in