Coolie guides and luggage bearers desert the tourists—Opium the curse of the Chinese Empire—The most dangerous stage of the Chinese trip concluded at last—Chung King’s conjurer gives a remarkable street performance 67–71

[CHAPTER XIV.]

Inter Ocean tourists become tramps through rain and snow, with the wheels carried on bamboo poles—Nearing the boundary line of China—Sudden change of climate and a narrow escape from the sunstroke—Chang, the Yunnan Giant 72–76

[CHAPTER XV.]

A toast to the United States on Burmese soil—“On the Road to Mandalay”—Entertained at a wedding of royalty, where a feature of the programme caused ladies to retire and bachelors to blush—Hospitable British officers 76–81

[CHAPTER XVI.]

Rangoon suffers an attack of the bicycling fever—Native sports supplanted by corrupt horse-racing—A prize fight where rules do not count—Across the Bay of Bengal by steamer 81–88

[CHAPTER XVII.]

Arrival of the tourists causes great excitement at Benares—A pretty trio of supercilious British wheelmen—Guests of the Maharajah at Fort Ramnagar—A leap almost into the jaws of death 88–94

[CHAPTER XVIII.]