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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A MONTH IN A CAVE FIGHTING OPIUM. THE Monday evening meeting thus begun soon became a recognised institution. On one occasion one of the men, to my surprise, said: ' You have talked to us about repentance. Well, some of us smoke a little opium. We know that this is not right. Can you help us to break off the habit ? ' My reply was, ' Yes, if you will come and live with me for a month.' On my next visit, I found there was an objection to living with me. It was urged that absence from home would be inconvenient. This was not the chief obstacle. The real reason was that their friends had not yet persuaded themselves that foreigners could be trusted. Their wives said that they should cry all day if their husbands were living with a foreigner. Possibly, too, the' husbands even feared for the results. The proposition next made was that I should spend a month with Mr. Fan, and treat the opium-smokers on the spot. This turn of affairs was quite unlocked for, and required consideration, I ultimately, having decided in its favour, with fear and trembling took up my abode with Mr. Fan. In North China the dwellings are of three kinds: first, substantially built stone or brick houses; secondly, houses built of sun-dried bricks; thirdly, caves dug in the sides of the hills. Now Mr. Fan lived in a cave. In the province of Shan-si, hills are many and lofty. Among them there are many cave-dwellers. Sometimes a hill is terraced, and the caves rise one above another from the base to the summit. From the upper terrace the occupiers converse with those of the lower, and at times the ladies, in this way, proclaim to the world what they think of each other. I have seen, too, from this point of vantage, the glance of the maiden answer to that of the youth. A space, say a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217163842
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021716384X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 77 gr


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