Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . KU-LANG-SU, AMOY, CHINA, ASIATIC CENTER OF THEBAPTIST MISSIONARIES I. HOUSE BOATS AT TIEN-TSIN, OCCUPIED BY CHINESE WHO WILL NOTLIVE IN HOUSES DESECRATED BY THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGNERS REMARKABLE CITIES OF CHINA. 269 lation. From what I saw I am forced to the belief that the densityof the town population of China is greatly exaggerated. Whenone considers that th
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . KU-LANG-SU, AMOY, CHINA, ASIATIC CENTER OF THEBAPTIST MISSIONARIES I. HOUSE BOATS AT TIEN-TSIN, OCCUPIED BY CHINESE WHO WILL NOTLIVE IN HOUSES DESECRATED BY THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGNERS REMARKABLE CITIES OF CHINA. 269 lation. From what I saw I am forced to the belief that the densityof the town population of China is greatly exaggerated. Whenone considers that the Chinese people are vain, and conceited, andinvariably make over-statements in regard to any subject underconsideration; when one recalls the average ignorant local officialfrom whom, in the first place, figures concerning population mustoriginate, the figures of population are set aside as almost unworthyof serious consideration. NARROW STREETS. This seems to voice the opinion of the greater number of trav-elers through China in regard to the town population. Anothertraveler says : The foreigner gets his idea of the overcrowding of China by acursory trip through the streets of a thoroughly Chinese city likeCanton. These streets are narrow, being but from eight to twelve feetwide, and are consequ
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