Mayor Daley presides over the Martha Stewarting of Chicago.

It is our duty […] to endeavour the recovery of these most beneficial subjects.

[I]t was commonly said that two masts, a bowsprit and a swivel gun would have transformed our dwelling into a line-of-battle ship; indeed, so seaman-like was our architect, that we feared when once we had taken possession of our new house, we might be disturbed during the night by an order being given to go about, and by hearing in the quiet hours of the morning the familiar inquiry of How's her head?

We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.