Excerpt from A Little Journey to China: For Intermediate and Upper GradesThe traveler meets with many difficulties in China. There are few railroads, the boats, Ou the rivers and canals are not very attractive to Americans and Euro peans, camels are not pleasant riding to strangers, the sedan-chair and the wheelbarrows cramp one too much for Comfort, and the roads are so miserable and crooked that walking is both unpleasant and dangerous, for a Chinaman wants the roads ffom one village to another to wind about SO much that an evil spirit wandering in them will likely get lost and not find the way to the Chinaman's house.Both the officials and the common people fought the introduction of railroads into China. This opposition was due partly to the fear that it would open the way for missionaries and other foreigners to get in easily, and partly to the fear that it would anger evil Spirits and cause them to bring great misfortunes On the peo ple. So great was the opposition to' railroads twenty five years ago that, even after a Short one had been built from Shanghai to Wusung, the authorities bought it and destroyed it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.