So now an American traveler may go up and down the China coast and "point with pride" to his nation's representatives.

How different it was ten or twelve years ago! We barely managed to get on board the _Prinz Ludwig_--Singapore to Hongkong.

It is one of the N.D.

Lloyd's crack ships and everybody tries to take it.

We got the last cabin, as usual, and spent hours thanking our lucky stars.
The China Sea is chronically disposed to be disagreeable, but on this occasion it was quite well behaved.