TKKN KWANG, A CHINA RACING PONY. 



CHAPTER XL 



The Blue Funnel Line ' We have never lost a Passenger ' Lascar Crews 

 Steering on Land Chinese Boatmen Hong Kong China Ponies 

 Racing in China Buckstone and Tim Whiffler Mr Fraser Smith 

 Bandmann Shanghai Mongolian Ponies Mr Kelly Maitland 

 Small Feet Society in Shanghai Shanghai Race Club Horsebreak- 

 ing at Shanghai Rickshaws Gambling for Food Tientsin Mr Butler 

 Mafoos The French Mail Japan Hotels and Food. 



HAVING been rendered thoughtful by our failure to 

 organise a performance in Singapore, and having a 

 new country before us, we took tickets by the ss. Jason of the 

 Blue Funnel Line, the fares of which are cheap, and the boats 

 though small and slow, are well-manned by white crews, and 

 are carefully navigated. This cannot be said of some of the 

 steamers on that coast. By the evidence given in the Aratoon 

 Apcar and Hebe collison case, it appeared that the man in 

 charge of the latter, which used to trade between Singapore 

 and Sumatra, was, at the time of the accident, a 'black 



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