CONTENTS

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Author's Preface[1]
I.War Hell and Bull Fights[7]
II."Missouri" and His False Teeth[17]
III.Wong Lee—The Human Bellows[28]
IV.Hawaii—and the Fisherman Who'd Sign the Pledge[33]
V.The Umpire Who Got a Job[44]
VI.The Japs' Five-Story Skyscraper and a Basement[53]
VII.Japanese Girls in American Clothes—They Mar the Landscape[59]
VIII.Ceremonious Grandmother—"Missouri" a "Heavenly Twin"[64]
IX.Ushi the Rikisha Man[79]
X.Missionaries, Tracts, and a Job Worth While[91]
XI.Yamamoto and High Cost of Living[99]
XII.The Soldier Said Something in Chinese[103]
XIII.Ten Thousand Tons on a Wheelbarrow and the Ananias Club[114]
XIV."Missouri" Meets a Missionary[120]
XV.A Sto-o-rm at Sea[133]
XVI.The Islands "Discovered" by Dewey[138]
XVII.White Filipinos, Aguinaldo, and the Busy Moth[147]
XVIII.Singapore—The Humorist's Close Call[156]
XIX.The Hindu Guide a Saint Would Be[168]
XX.Penang—A Bird, the Female of Its Species, and the Mangosteen[172]
XXI.Burma and Buddha[176]
XXII.Baptists and Buddhism[181]
XXIII.The Rangoon Business Man Who Drove His Sermon Home[185]
XXIV.The Glass of Ice-Water That Jarred Rangoon[188]
XXV.The Calcutta Sacred Bull and His Twisted Tail[194]
XXVI.The Guide Who Wouldn't Sit in "Master's" Presence[201]
XXVII.Royalty vs. "Two Clucks and a Grunt"[206]
XXVIII.One Wink, Sixteen Cents, and Royalty[210]
XXIX.The Englishman and Mark Twain's Joke, "That's How They Wash in India"[215]
XXX.English as "She Is Spoke" in India[223]
XXXI.Five Days' Sail and a Measly Poem[225]
XXXII.Beating the Game With One Shirt[240]
XXXIII.Through Hell Gate Steerage[257]