I I FN KWANG, A CHINA RACING I'llNV. 



CHAPTER XI. 



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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