_My grandmother's curios--Camels and elephants--Dr Morrison--Chinese in Australia--Feared for his virtues--Racial animosity--Great Northern Plain--A city of silence--A land of exile--The Holy Sea--Frost flowers on a birch forest--Chaos at Manchuria and Kharbin--Japanese efficiency--A Peking dust storm._ |When I was a little girl and was taken to see my grandmother, she set out for my amusement, to be looked at but not touched by little fingers, various curios brought home by my grandfather from China in the old days when he was a sailor in the Honourable East India Company's service; beautifully carved ivory chessmen, a model of a Chinese lady's foot about three inches long, dainty mother-o…
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