Traveller Tales of China, Or, the Story-Telling Hongs
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" A man with a dark visage, all bows and smiles, appeared. " You will make for these English merchants caravan tea." Boabditti soon reappeared. He l)rought in cups of steaming tea. They filled the great room with fragrance, as they were set down on little tables about the place. Next Jocobi offered the choicest cigars, imported from Havana in the blue Antilles, — the finest in all the world. 216 TRAVELLER TALES OF CHINA Figs were brought. " These came from Smyrna," said Jocobi ; " I furnish no ...others to travellers who come here from the West. I only offer my best to travellers from the West. Great and renowned is the hospitality of the Desert Inn. The traveller, he wrap his cloak about him in the dark storm of the desert, but heaven herself wraps her divine mantle about him when he sinks down to rest in the Desert Inn. Jocobi, he haf a heart for the comfort of all mankind." The supper was ample for a desert inn. " I serves chops for Englishmen," said Jocobi. " The Bud- dhist he no eats flesh, but I know what it is that the Englishmen like, and I put my whole heart to serve the people after their habit.
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