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قراءة كتاب A Yankee in the Far East
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A YANKEE
IN
THE FAR EAST
BY
GEORGE HOYT ALLEN
Author of "It Tickled Him"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
H. S. WELLER
CLINTON, N. Y.
TRAVELOGUE-ART ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED
1916
Copyright, 1914
By Travelogue-Art Association, Inc.
Copyright, 1915
By Travelogue-Art Association, Inc.
All rights reserved
Second Edition
To my Friend
J. Whitfield Hirst
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Author's Preface | 1 | |
| I. | War Hell and Bull Fights | 7 |
| II. | "Missouri" and His False Teeth | 17 |
| III. | Wong Lee—The Human Bellows | 28 |
| IV. | Hawaii—and the Fisherman Who'd Sign the Pledge | 33 |
| V. | The Umpire Who Got a Job | 44 |
| VI. | The Japs' Five-Story Skyscraper and a Basement | 53 |
| VII. | Japanese Girls in American Clothes—They Mar the Landscape | 59 |
| VIII. | Ceremonious Grandmother—"Missouri" a "Heavenly Twin" | 64 |
| IX. | Ushi the Rikisha Man | 79 |
| X. | Missionaries, Tracts, and a Job Worth While | 91 |
| XI. | Yamamoto and High Cost of Living | 99 |
| XII. | The Soldier Said Something in Chinese | 103 |
| XIII. | Ten Thousand Tons on a Wheelbarrow and the Ananias Club | 114 |
| XIV. | "Missouri" Meets a Missionary | 120 |
| XV. | A Sto-o-rm at Sea | 133 |
| XVI. | The Islands "Discovered" by Dewey | 138 |
| XVII. | White Filipinos, Aguinaldo, and the Busy Moth | 147 |
| XVIII. | Singapore—The Humorist's Close Call | 156 |
| XIX. | The Hindu Guide a Saint Would Be | 168 |
| XX. | Penang—A Bird, the Female of Its Species, and the Mangosteen | 172 |
| XXI. | Burma and Buddha | 176 |
| XXII. | Baptists and Buddhism | 181 |
| XXIII. | The Rangoon Business Man Who Drove His Sermon Home | 185 |
| XXIV. | The Glass of Ice-Water That Jarred Rangoon | 188 |
| XXV. | The Calcutta Sacred Bull and His Twisted Tail | 194 |
| XXVI. | The Guide Who Wouldn't Sit in "Master's" Presence | 201 |
| XXVII. | Royalty vs. "Two |