The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 69: what you’re looking at

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THE: GIRE PROM HONG-KONG. 63 At each station strange scenes are met. with, upon the like ef which Doris at least has never before gazed. Vietims of the famine may be seen huddled ahout, emaciated beyond belief. They seem to await. the dread summons of fate with the stoicism that. is such a graund- work of their race. What littke assistance single individuals may afford is . like adrep ina bucket ef water, such is the immense aren over whieh the awful hunger holds, sway. ‘Ebare are ether scenes less pitiful, and hardly & stop ia wade but what. the travelers find themselves deeply interested. India is indeed a land filled with marvelous things, and from tample and mosque down te the shops in the mart, the eye that loves bright colors may drink ita fill of splendor, underneath whieh lies the moat abject squaler and want. Later on in the journey they pass over great. atretehes ef open country which loek stramgely familiar te our Ferry, who has been through India before. He remembers. his tiger hunt on an elephant, when the great striped beast of Bengal ‘pounced upon his guide and had almest torm the wretched chowkudar in pieees. ere a. bullet. rightly placed ended his life—when night comes and the stars peep out of the blue dome overhead he thinks of how he layin ambush with a comicbooks.com