

E-text prepared by Peter Vachuska, Chuck Greif, Greg Bergquist, and the
Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)



Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
      file which includes the original illustrations.
      See 24971-h.htm or 24971-h.zip:
      (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/9/7/24971/24971-h/24971-h.htm)
      or
      (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/9/7/24971/24971-h.zip)





TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST

[Illustration: _The Pyramids from the Nile, Cairo_]


TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST

by

ELLEN M. H. PECK
(Mrs. James Sidney Peck)







New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers

Copyright 1909
By Ellen M. H. Peck

The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.




OZYMANDIAS


  I met a traveller from an antique land
  Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
  Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
  Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
  And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
  Tell that its s