Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . ts area for cultivationmuch lessened, by the graves. The customs of ancestral wor-ship requirethat the fathers grave be carefully preserved inorder that his male descendants may worship before it, but thegraves of women, unmarried people and children are not so wellmade or cared for, and, as a matter of fact it is only a questionof time before they all fall into decay and become the frequency with which new caskets appear is startling,to say the least, and until the dead are really buried in placesallotted for that purpose
Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . ts area for cultivationmuch lessened, by the graves. The customs of ancestral wor-ship requirethat the fathers grave be carefully preserved inorder that his male descendants may worship before it, but thegraves of women, unmarried people and children are not so wellmade or cared for, and, as a matter of fact it is only a questionof time before they all fall into decay and become the frequency with which new caskets appear is startling,to say the least, and until the dead are really buried in placesallotted for that purpose alone, strangers will have ample oppor-tunity to view this peculiar feature of the landscape. The above customs, aided by fung shuy (broadly—superstition—anything bad or to be feared), were principallyinstrumental, in preventing the installation of railroads for along time, but all obstacles were finally overcome by appealingto the common sense of the people and, in a small way, to theircupidity. Shanghai means .Upper Sea and the city is known to. CHINA 67 have existed in the year 249 B. C. It looks, in some places, asif it had been there longer. It is situated on a great bend ofthe Woosung twelve miles from its junction with the Yang TseKiang. Its foreign population is small compared with the millionor more natives. While scattered over a large area as to resi-dence, the foreign population handles business in the three for-eign settlements which adjoin each other—French, English andAmerican. In their offices is handled the bulk of Chinas enor-mous and rapidly increasing commerce with the world. Steam-ers enter and leave this port at the rate of 20 or 30 or more aday, and nothing offers a greater illustration of the differencebetween foreign and Chinese civilization than the contrast be-tween our iron steamships and the wooden junk which consti-tutes now, as it did 1000 years ago, the Chinamans method ofcarrying freight over seas. These three towns within a town have all
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