«If the Upper Yangtze junks number from seven to eight thousand the men employed on them at the lowest estimate

«A noisy and dirty rabble follows a stranger; mud is thrown (…) bad names are bandied freely (…)»

«In them hundreds of people eat, sleep, bargain, gamble, cook, spin and quarrel, while they are the sculleries, sinks and

Suizid aus Rachemotiven

«The linked system of superstition and torture, which enter largely into Chinese medical treatment, are undermined, and rational Western surgery

«Cooking, washing, mending, eating and watching my occupation with far less interest than I watched theirs, filled up their day.

«(…) in short, that it is generally abonimable.»

«Ein Verlangen nach Erlösung durch die mystische Macht der Heiligkeit, verbunden mit einem alptraumhaften Bewusstsein der dämonischen Gewalt, verlieh dieser