Rough Notes Of Journeys Made I PDF Download

Excerpt from Rough Notes of Journeys Made in the Years 1868, '69, '70, '71, '72, and '73, in Syria, Down the Tigris, India, Kashmir, Ceylon, Japan, Mongolia, Siberia, the United States, the Sandwich Islands, and Australasia Rangoon, rice-mills, large Buddhist pagoda, its begging-box - Women the bread-winners - Maulmain, not progressing N ovam Expedition B. P. S. N. Company's lines of steamers - Penang - Tropical vegetation Never be too positive - Malacca, tin principal export - Singapore, strike of Chinese, extensive trade, many Germans - Saigon, the Chinese town Large export of rice - French military station, unhealthy - Large revenue on sale of opium - Annamite indolence - hong-kong - Flirtations - The Happy Valley - Chinese criminals - Canton - Archdeacon Grey - Temples of the Genii - Buddhist monastery and nunnery-grambling - Opium smoking - Restaurant - Tea-divan - Flour-mills - Jade-shops - Ivory turn ing Lacquer - Horn lanterns Schools Weddings Pawnbrokers Watch-towers - Shops - Police - The willow-pattern plate - Punish ments - Provisions - Shoes for the dead - Trades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.