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witli others, and goats also, are driven to tlie door to be
milked, thus avoiding the city pests of impure milk.
CANTON WITHIN THE WALLS.
Approach to this, the wealthiest and most elegant
city of
China, seemed almost impossible, from the wilderness of
skiffs, "sam-pans," and junks plying the muddy waters.
These junks, clumsily modeled, yet richly decorated, have
bamboo sails, and are better adapted to inland harbor and
river purposes than European-rigged vessels. Full two hundred
thousand Cantonese live, traffic, eat, sleep, and die on
these river-boats. Their sam-pans, though floating property,
are their real estate. The smallest children have bambooblocks
tied to their bodies, so that, should they tumble overboard,
they could be easily rescued.
Landing, and presenting
letters of introduction from the Rev. Dr. Eitel, and our gentlemanly
and kind-hearted consul Mr. Bailey, appointed
to Hong Kong from Cincinnati, and, by the way, a distant
relation, his maternal grandparent being a Peebles, we were
made the recipients of the Rev. Dr. Kerr's hospitalities.
The streets of Canton, irregularly laid out, are from fiVe
to seven and ten feet wide, and generally covered in with
fluttering matting and bamboo-reeds, giving them a dull, shadowy
appearance. Broad avenues are yet to be dreamed of
by Chinamen. Wheeled carriages out of the question, sedanchairs
carried by coolies are the only means of transportation.
It pained me to see that the shoulders of some of these
poor burden-bearers were calloused and scarred. The principal
streets, with such lofty names as "Pure Pearl," "Just
Balance," " Unblemished Rectitude Street," &c., have banners
and gaudily painted signs dangling in front of their
bazaars, presenting an aspect at once gay and gorgeous.
China has a million of temples. The emperor's temple is
magnificent. Only imperial buildings have yellow tiles. Canton's
guardian god sits majestically in the. city temple. The
Confucian temples have images of Confucius. There are few