I swore an oath of eternal brotherhood with Yuan-ruo, and pledged him my everlasting allegiance, as an expression of my lifelong loyalty to him.
Chinese people have always treated their friends with this sort of impeccable loyalty.
—John Blofeld, My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu’s Travel Diary —The Memoirs of an Englishman in China, 36, 156
Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
—Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road, #15
