"But the 400,000,000 Chinese and affiliated races, are more insidiously
dangerous than you know. They will cultivate the seed now being sown,
and prepare the dragon's harvest of blood. In the remoter provinces
they will soon breed soldiers and captains, who will eclipse the bloody
and destructive achievements of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, profiting
by your present superior knowledge of mechanism and the arts of war,
which they will appropriate and assimilate, and turn to terrible final
account.
"The commercial greed of the West will be the enemy of the Western
peoples themselves. It will fit and arm the aroused avengers for their
world-wide invasion and conflict. Selfish capitalists will do this
in spite of all inhibitions, under the plea of creating prosperous
conditions and extending commerce, and their people and their posterity
will perish by the enginery which selfish commercial greed placed in
the hands of their enemies."
Maros presented me to another official, and politely dismissed me to
visit the places of interest in the city. Upon my return to America
I compared the contemporaneous history of the world with the daily
records I had been permitted to inspect, the remembrance of which
I vividly retained, and found every fact therein to be absolutely
correct.
IV.
A TRIP BY AIR AND LAND AND WATER THROUGH THE PROVINCES, CITIES,
HAMLETS AND GARDENS, WITH MATCHLESS BEAUTY AND ENJOYMENT ON
EVERY HAND.
IV.
A TOUR OF SIGHT-SEEING.
What a wonderful land is Intermere, and what a wonderful people live
and enjoy life in it to the full!
Twenty days of visiting ten of the interior provinces, bordering
on the mere, was more like a dream of happiness, sight-seeing and
indescribable enjoyment to me than a reality. For reasons not explained
to me I was not carried into the fourteen remaining provinces, which
evidently lay in all directions toward the exterior borders of the
land. I rather suspect that this was because it might have enabled me
to form some definite idea of the geographical location of Intermere.
What I saw and experienced I still retain as a beautiful and
ineffaceable memory, but it is a picture I can not wholly reproduce or
describe in anything like complete details. I can at best only give the
impressions I still retain.
The delightful journey was under the direction of Karmas, the Custodian
of Works and Polity, accompanied by other chief officers, and the
officials of the provinces, the title and character of which had
already been given me by Xamas.
They have three modes of travel: by Medocar, by Aerocar, and by
Merocar. By the first you travel on land; by the second through the
air; by the third on the water. While these vehicles of transportation
are divided into three general classes as designated, they comprise
thousands of beautiful and curious designs, upon which individual names
are bestowed, as we bestow names upon our horses and our ships.
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