ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the author's first trip to Peking was in a house boat. The author's family employed the boatmen on Saturday, but did not go on the boats till Monday morning. The one in the house boat up the river took from Monday morning till Saturday evening, while the one in the mule litter required only four days. Now a Chinese litter or cart driver plans to make the inn, where he proposes to spend the night, before dark. The author remembers on another occasion a party of his family went for a summer outing to Miao Feng Shan, a great temple on top of a high mountain. A method of travel is by the Chinese cart. The Chinese call a jinrikisha a 'man pull cart'. Starting from New York, one can travel around the world without ever leaving a steamer, or a sleeper, except to stop in a good hotel.
