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 J. D. Cooper, From the Author's Own Sketches and Photographs.' This latter book was as rich and colorful as a velvet rug of many colors. In single sentences it created pictures so vivid one could fairly see them.

Hung Long Tom read the book to Scobee and many of the pages they almost committed to memory. Never had Scobee run across a travel book that was more alluring. Here are a few sentences from it chosen at random: "It will hardly be credited by those who have never visited a hill country in the tropics, that soon after sunrise the noise of awakening beetles and tree-loving insects is so great as to drown the bellowing of a bull, or the roar of a tiger a few paces off. The sound resembles most nearly the metallic whirr of a hundred Bradford looms Even in China we find red a token of rejoicing (the bridal costume), while over India and China, and all Buddhist countries, the sacred priestly robes are yellow; and with a number of the races of India and Indo-China the yellow golden skin is esteemed the highest attribute of female