Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . around us. Then, perhaps, so sharp are the revulsions of feeling inweak human nature, one begins to have a wealthy andlordly feeling, as though he were being borne through thestreets on the shoulders of an admiring crowd because ofsome great achievement. However, the throngs are notvery demonstrative in their admiration, for they take nomore notice of you than a ISTew York crowd would take of aBroadway street-car. In fact, we who are perched up inthese chairs are far more interested in the crowds
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . around us. Then, perhaps, so sharp are the revulsions of feeling inweak human nature, one begins to have a wealthy andlordly feeling, as though he were being borne through thestreets on the shoulders of an admiring crowd because ofsome great achievement. However, the throngs are notvery demonstrative in their admiration, for they take nomore notice of you than a ISTew York crowd would take of aBroadway street-car. In fact, we who are perched up inthese chairs are far more interested in the crowds beneaththan they are in us, for foreigners are no novelty in HongKong. Let us go down to the Chinese quarter and get out ofthis humdrum European life as soon as possible. It does OUT-OF-DOOR AVOCATIONS. 151 not take us long to do this, for there are only eight thou-sand foreigners in the city and some two hundred thousandnatives. Everything is of interest to our unaccustomed we must record our impressions quickly before customdulls the edge of amazement, or it will seem as though Ave. A CHINESE FORGE. had always lived in the midst of these sights, and shall notbe able to describe them with any vividness to our friends athome. The first thing that strikes us as strange is, that every-thing is done out-of-doors. The shoemaker cobbles hisshoes ; the fish merchant peddles his fish ; the cabinet-makerfits together his chest of drawers; the tailor shoves hisneedle; the carpenter draws his plane (toward himself ingenuine Chinese style), but all upon the sidewalk as it seems. There are, to be sure, small recesses which are10 152 LANTERNS AND INCENSE. called stores and shops, but they are very diminutive andscarcely seem necessary to the carrying on of business. Over every shop door hangs a paper lantern, some ofthem huge affairs as big as small balloons, others more mod-est in size, while here and there one sees a vulgar kerosenelamp. It is said that the oil wells of Pennsylv
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