Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . natural gifts—the power of subduingbeasts, destroying reptiles, and, like the apostles in the Scrip-tures, the power of being able to speak in strange tongues without any previousapplication. In thisthey resembled Xavier,whosefootsteps we crossedin India and Malacca,and who was ble
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . natural gifts—the power of subduingbeasts, destroying reptiles, and, like the apostles in the Scrip-tures, the power of being able to speak in strange tongues without any previousapplication. In thisthey resembled Xavier,whosefootsteps we crossedin India and Malacca,and who was blessedwith this unique andconvenient power. We strolled inand out among theshops as though ourinterest was a propri-etary one, always fol-lowed by a looked at thetemple in honor of virtuous women ; but woman does not holda position in China high enough to warrant us in believingthat there was any sincerity in this tribute. A virtuous womanis commended for her virtue in China by her husband verymuch as he would commend speed it a horse, not because itsanctifies woman, but because in adds to her value as a partof the husbands possessions. We stopped and looked at someworkmen blowing glass. A glass vase in a rough state, aboutsix feet high, was in the hands of the artificer, and although the. GARDEN. CANTON. CANTON WORKMEN. ,2o pat of an infant would have ruined its beauty the workmanhandled it as surely as though it had been iron. The manufac-ture of glass is an important industry in Canton. But we foundour greatest pleasure in looking at the porcelain and ceramicware, infinite in variety and beautiful, and at the carved ivoryand hard-wood. Canton excels in this and in crape and of the shawls and scarfs were masterpieces of texture, andespecially some which had been painted and embroidered. Welooked at men beating gold-leaf, and threading our way intonarrow streets and out-of-the-way places, found ourselves amongthe weavers of silk. The rooms in which the silk
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