Excerpt from World Friendship, Inc
Let us suppose that we have just arrived in Canton. We have come up by steamer from Hongkong and are met by a missionary friend who almost wrings our hands off in the joy of seeing some "folks from back home." We answer five hundred questions in five minutes and then tell him that our visit is short and we want to get a quick view of missionary work in the city.
"I'm your man," he says. "How would you like to be transported?"
"What kinds have you?" we ask.
"Rickshaw, sedan chair, horse cab, and motor," he replies. We finally decide to go in a Ford which he says he can borrow, and in an hours time he calls for us at our hotel. We speak of the swarms upon swarms of people and ask where they have come from.
"They all belong here," he says. "Haven't you heard the story of the tourist who had never believed there were four hundred million people in China until he got to Canton and then he saw them all waiting for him on the Bund?"
"What do you call those ridiculous little boats that we saw all about the harbor as we came in?" we ask.
"Those are called sampans. Would you believe that two hundred thousand of our city's population live all the year round on those little boats? It's a fact. Now wed better be off."
We pile into the Ford and start along the Bund. Our guide points to an imposing building. "That is a hospital," he says, "the first in China.
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