The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . issues from cracks inthe walls. Chimneys are conspicuous by their absencethroughout the empire. I think this may be thereason why photographs of Chinese towns look so un-real to us. Sometimes you think as you pass througha doorway that you are entering an inn, whereas itproves to be a village street, completely covered in bymats, stretched on rods from roof to roof, and makingthe streets q
The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . issues from cracks inthe walls. Chimneys are conspicuous by their absencethroughout the empire. I think this may be thereason why photographs of Chinese towns look so un-real to us. Sometimes you think as you pass througha doorway that you are entering an inn, whereas itproves to be a village street, completely covered in bymats, stretched on rods from roof to roof, and makingthe streets quite dark in broad daylight. The people seem friendly and good-tempered, andwe passed one day through a district where nearly allthe women had unbound feet ; but this is the only oneI have ever come across in north, south, east, or the women working in the fields have boundfeet, and it is astonishing how fast they are able to getabout and what an amount of work they do. To besure, they often carry little stools to sit on while theyare weeding or planting in the fields. Sometimes theyhave a baby tied on their backs, but not infrequentlythis duty is relegated to the children, and you may i5°. SZECHWAN HIGHWAY ch. xiv S%echwan High-roads see a toddler of not more than four or five years oldcarrying another nearly as large as himself, and tryingto soothe its cries by swaying to and fro. We found it most important to keep to the regulardaily stages while travelling in the interior, but some-times this is impossible, and then the most villainousinns have to be faced. We were delayed by rain,which made the roads extremely slippery and men fell no fewer than three times one day, and onone occasion they flung the chair heavily on its side,smashing the windows ; happily, I escaped with onlyscratches. The glass windows should have been re-placed at their expense, but, fortunately for their purses,I felt that it was safer to be without windows aftersuch an experienc
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