The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 94: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

BOOK IL. How Hz Woorp Hxr rv’ Parsi. =a CHAPTER IX. IN THE HORSE MARKET OF TEHERAN. TreRRY is glad to be among houses again, even if they are low, squatty buildings with here and there amosque or bazar fashioned of burned bricks. ‘They find a French tavern yclept an hotel, and kept as of yore by one M. Prevost, a gentleman who has these many years wrestled with the task of endeavoring“to teach the subjects/of the shah how Parisian people enjoy the good things of life. A few lights are to be seen in the streets, but these indicate the _ passage of some man of rank, mayhap on his‘ way to the palace of the shah, rather than any desire on the part of the citizens to illuminate the streets. Possibly at some future day electricity may take its place even in Teheran, but the people will ‘have to be ‘educated up to that:point, eHOugS even now Eneseiare 4 J wee symptoms that it is coming. comicbooks.con