Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . d Faces — The Seamy Sideof Chinese Life — Hitting the Pipe — Opium Fiends—Fan-tan Gam-blers — Intense Excitement — Chinese Music — Unearthly Screeching —Prolonged and Awful Caterwauling — Human Beasts of Burden —China and Japan Agriculturally Considered — Rotation of Crops —Novel Ice Harvesting — Fish Farming — An Odd Way of Fishing —A Great Funeral — Funeral Baked Meats — Baby Towers of Shanghai. N the day after Christmas, thesteamer Yokohama Mam whichbore us from the beautiful shoresof Japan, s
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . d Faces — The Seamy Sideof Chinese Life — Hitting the Pipe — Opium Fiends—Fan-tan Gam-blers — Intense Excitement — Chinese Music — Unearthly Screeching —Prolonged and Awful Caterwauling — Human Beasts of Burden —China and Japan Agriculturally Considered — Rotation of Crops —Novel Ice Harvesting — Fish Farming — An Odd Way of Fishing —A Great Funeral — Funeral Baked Meats — Baby Towers of Shanghai. N the day after Christmas, thesteamer Yokohama Mam whichbore us from the beautiful shoresof Japan, steamed up to herdock in Shanghai, and we found^yy J*** 111 ourselves once more in China. Shanghai is probably thegreatest commercial port of thefar East. Yessels bearing theflags of every nation dischargetheir cargoes at her warehousedoors. At least, they do thisfiguratively speaking, and would be glad to do it literally,were it not for the obstructing bar near the mouth of theYang-tse-Kiang river. This bar the Chinese government allows to fill up with16 (257). 258 VELVET-FOOTED CHINAMEX. silt from the upper river, and never makes any effort to re-move it, or to form a new channel, as might easily be done. It is the will of heaven, say these fatalistic Celestials; we will not interfere. I strongly suspect, however, that it is the will of the highChinese authorities as well, who are not at all averse tokeeping the foreign devils out of their territory even atthe expense of ruining their best seaport. Be that as it may, the port of Shanghai is already inac-cessible to the largest vessels, and even moderate-sizedsteamers sometimes must wait for days before they can crossthe bar at Woosung, where all the large steamers take onand discharge their cargo. Shanghai consists of three cities united b}T contiguityand commercial interests; the American and English con-cessions which are under one municipal government, theFrench concession which is a munici
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