A thick crowd of a hundred Chinese soon surrounded me, and although I knew not a word of their tongue, and they knew no more of mine, we chatted in the most amicable way by mimicry and we understood each other.
Kropotkin reflects on the universal nature of communication through gestures, even without a shared language.
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