THE EQUINOX
5 A
better but not good.
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6. A
better.
7. A
still better.
8. A
really very good.
Ditto in p.m.
(Smooth sandy road perhaps helped.)
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9. A
very poor (horseback, slippery wet sand, and
cobbles).
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10. A
good considering (horseback)
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n. A
poor (evil thoughts).
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12. A
unconcentrated.
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13. A
literally against
my
own will.
Beneath
contempt. le Effect of ease, etc.
(On the 10th he had arrived at Mengtzu, where
the Collector of Customs kindly received him,
and gave him the first meal and bed he had
had since leaving Tengyueh.)
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14. A
still very bad—a shade better.
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15. A
still
poor.
(Rain,
wind,
horse,
mud,
cobbles).
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16. A
a shade better(in chair) (z'. e. his wife’s Sedan
chair).
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17. A
slowly improving (boat).
(By this time they
had
got
to Manhao, and embarked on the
dangerous rapids of the Red River.
He was
nearly
drowned,
the
dug—out
twice
hitting
rocks.)
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18. Arrived at Ηο Κ᾽ονν͵
A
at night nearly forgotten.
Did it in the
open late at night.
Rather good.
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