Guests at a Chinese wedding--The dark side of life in China sought and found--Indescribable horrors of a native prison--New Year extravagantly celebrated--Mrs. McIlrath's pen picture of a Chinese lady of fashion 43-47
Received in state by the Toa Toi of Su Chow--Invited to witness the execution of a woman by the "Seng Chee" method--Debut of the bicycle along the Grand Canal--"Foreign devils" pursued by maddened mobs of natives 48-53
The American people's able representative at Ching Kiang--A reminiscence of his pluck and courage in settling claims for his country--Wheeling by night in a strange country with mud up to the bicycle hubs 53-57
Saved by a Mandarin from the clutches of an Asiatic Shylock--Cyclists stray into the dangerous province of Hunan--Taken into Shaze, the city of blood and crimes--The Yang-Tse Kiang gorges from a houseboat 57-62
The Yang-Tse-Kiang in its fiercest mood turned to advantage by a native undertaker--An appreciative Tai Foo pays the tourists for calling upon him--Severe punishment of a grasping boatman--A forced march to Chung King 62-66
Coolie guides and luggage bearers desert the tourists--Opium the curse of the Chinese Empire--The most dangerous stage of the Chinese trip concluded at last--Chung King's conjurer gives a remarkable street performance 67-71
Inter Ocean tourists become tramps through rain and snow, with the wheels carried on bamboo poles--Nearing the boundary line of China--Sudden change of climate and a narrow escape from the sunstroke--Chang, the Yunnan Giant 72-76
A toast to the United States on Burmese soil--"On the Road to Mandalay"--Entertained at a wedding of royalty, where a feature of the programme caused ladies to retire and bachelors to blush--Hospitable British officers 76-81
Rangoon suffers an attack of the bicycling fever--Native sports supplanted by corrupt horse-racing--A prize fight where rules do not count--Across the Bay of Bengal by steamer 81-88
Arrival of the tourists causes great excitement at Benares--A pretty trio of supercilious British wheelmen--Guests of the Maharajah at Fort Ramnagar--A leap almost into the jaws of death 88-94
Pursued by a maddened herd of water buffalo--A joke ends in a race for life--The Yankee flag a conspicuous feature of the Queen's Jubilee at Delhi--A reminder of the plucky but unfortunate Frank Lenz 94-96