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372
Hong Kong 22nd. February 199 1910
It is a well known fact, experienced afresh every year
by each new traveller who ventures to investigate the con-
ditions of Chinese civilization in the interior, that the
inns one has to patronize are far from comfortable. Even the very best inns_, those that are preserved by the GoT- ernment for high officials travelling on the Imperial
highways in the North or North-west, in Manonuria and
Chinese Turkestan are mere horse-stables,
compared with
the luxuriously equipped hotels in Europe and America.
Sanitary prezutions, in these hotels would seem to be so neglected that the Foreign observer marvels how they can ex- ist under such conditions and become old. In spite of this apparent reckless neglect of sanitary precautions, certain advantages exist, which serve to preserve the travellers using these inng. The truth of this was brought home to the writer of these lines by personal observation when travelling for the B&F B. 3. in the East and West of Manchuria, and right across China, penetrating into Chinese Turkistan as far as Kulja and Zugsutschaok, to the last settlements of Chinese emigrants this side of the Russian frontier..
A somewhat careless young man, travelling alone for some 20 months at a time in those out-of-the-way places inthe heart of Asia, with a rather scanty outfit of medicine, and a still scantier knowledge of how to use them, the writer has often marvelled how it was that he kept free of malaria or any of its concomitant troubles. But since Mr. Grant-Smith dis- covered that Ammonia is a means of fighting the gases that cause cholera and other diseases, the writer is convinced that the strong doses of Ammonia produced by the horse and