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Excerpt from World Friendship, Inc
Rickshaw, sedan Chair, horse cab, and motor, he replies. We finally decide to go in a Ford which he says he can borrow, and in an hour's time he calls for us at our hotel. We Speak of the swarms upon swarms of people and ask where they have come from. They all belong here, he says. Haven't you heard the story Of the tourist who had never believed there were four hundred million people in China until he got to Canton and then he saw them all waiting for him on the Bund? What do you call those ridiculous little boats that we saw all about the harbor as we came in? We ask. Those are called sampans. Would you believe that two hundred thousand of our city's population live all the year round on those little boats? It's a fact. Now we'd better be ope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
