The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . lose theireligibility to the beggars guild. Another old womanwith disfigured face and sore-covered body, seated on astep—and a tiny child wailing at her dried-up such things are made the Great City so that you,in your canopied chair, wish that you had not seenand, having seen, could possibly forget. Thinking to clear your mind of the Citys ugliness,you make your way to the bazaar. Here there arestreets and streets of little shops radiating from acentral square—the meeting place of the businessmen of the City. Hard by stan
The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . lose theireligibility to the beggars guild. Another old womanwith disfigured face and sore-covered body, seated on astep—and a tiny child wailing at her dried-up such things are made the Great City so that you,in your canopied chair, wish that you had not seenand, having seen, could possibly forget. Thinking to clear your mind of the Citys ugliness,you make your way to the bazaar. Here there arestreets and streets of little shops radiating from acentral square—the meeting place of the businessmen of the City. Hard by stands a noble buildingwhence comes much of the control of the Cityswealth and you well know of the thriving businessthere. The streets are wider here and not so shmyand your bearers allow you to alight from your canopiedchair to walk among the shops. There one may seemany curious things. Buckles of jade and balls ofagate and amber. Ugly little men carved from oldivory or wrought in crystal. Little wooden boxesingeniously fitted into one another and designed. Ifiqe 160 Tall Rocks like Citadels THE CITY OF SEVEN GATES 151 for wealthy ladies vanities. Brooches designed fromold, hand-wrought gold and set with crystalover brilliantly-blue kingfisher feathers. Tiny woodenwine cups decorated with the script of that distantland. Peach stones carved into little idols and strungupon sill^en cord. Then there are the shops of silks—heavy, ivory-coloured crepe, rich tapestries wovenwith a pure gold thread, yellow raw silk twisted likegolden taffy. Keepers of medicine shops exhibit their strangewares and proclaim the heaUng or strengtheningpowers of a tigers skull bone or a dragons bring out the lining membrane of the gizzardof a fowl and explain the miraculous cures it willproduce. They have a midsummer root whichdeprives the eater of speech and a precious portion ofan oxs gall which transmits great courage to himwho would partake thereof. They have also thecocoons of caterpil
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