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CHAPTER IX

TO TA-CHIEN-LU

PEREIRA spent a month at Chengtu and whilst

there studied the causes of the student troubles

in China. The first cause, he records, is the bad

treatment of Chinese by some foreigners. Then

he finds that foreign-educated students are edu-

cated up to a certain standard and afterwards

discover that there is a lack of suitable employ-

ment for them. The teachers are over-familiar

and imbue students with ideas of equality.

Definite Christian teaching is replaced by science

and comparative religion. Students under

foreigners are called " foreign tripe " ' by their

compatriots, and to show that they are not

foreigners turn against their benefactors. Stu-

dents also strongly resent having to repay the

money lent them to enable them to study.

Having recorded these conclusions and also

had his boy taught the way to make omelettes,

scrambled eggs, ginger bread, ginger biscuits,

muffins and other luxuries, Pereira left Chengtu

on December 15 for Ta-chien-lu, 294 miles distant,

an important town on the Tibetan border from

whence one road leads to Lhasa.

The Chengtu plain was mostly covered with

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