The stranger was dressed in a long Pakistani-style shirt, travel-stained trousers and opened-toed rubber sandals.
On the night his mission reached the capital, tired and travel-stained, the ambassador received an abrupt summons from Emperor Chia Ch'ing: appear immediately at the imperial .
Then there is a picture of the boy, his face calm and thoughtful now, walking in the weary pageant of a slow, travel-stained procession along a road through the country.