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If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this file. This eBook was produced by: David T. I am a German by birth. But the years of my childhood were scattered over places as far apart as the Rhine and the Yangtze-kiang.
My voyage began at the point where the Rhine suddenly sweeps westward to bite its course through the mountains before it curves north again to flow, broad and swift, past the Lorelei and the towers of Cologne. One day in my mother, then on the way from Genoa to Rotterdam to join her husband, who had come in from the sea, felt that her time was near at hand.
She interrupted her journey and went to the home of people who knew her, in a little town near Mainz. There she gave birth to her first son. And before I was one month old, she carried me aboard a steamer, bound down the Rhine to Rotterdam.
