. China : its marvel and mystery. this to be so; but I could not put an easelup in the streets, and was warned not to collect acrowd, as there was considerable feeling against theBritish at that time. With difficulty we made our way about the variousstreets, seeing the temples and curious sights, and visitingthe shops, where gorgeous embroidered vestments werefor sale, and where they do the delicate decoration ofsilverwork by inlaying with the blue feather of thekingfisher. How quaint it all is, and how very different fromanything else in the world ! You go into a shop, and the doors or gates
. China : its marvel and mystery. this to be so; but I could not put an easelup in the streets, and was warned not to collect acrowd, as there was considerable feeling against theBritish at that time. With difficulty we made our way about the variousstreets, seeing the temples and curious sights, and visitingthe shops, where gorgeous embroidered vestments werefor sale, and where they do the delicate decoration ofsilverwork by inlaying with the blue feather of thekingfisher. How quaint it all is, and how very different fromanything else in the world ! You go into a shop, and the doors or gates areclosed after you, and you wonder what will happennext. All that does happen is that nimble boys beginto show you goods you long to possess. Maybe a cupof tea is offered, green, without sugar or milk; andalthough doubtful of the water, one takes it. There is much bargaining and haggling. No onethinks of giving the price asked, and the Chinese ap-preciate one who knows how to drive what seems ahard bargain. 22 iA FEB 1 S 1913 :. CANTON A General View—also of the Flowery Pagoda—from the Wallsnear the Five-Storied Pasfoda. CHAPTER V CANTON FROM THE WALLS City of the Dead Temples—British Yamen—Canton Water—My FirstAttempt to Paint in a Village. GOING right across the city—a long walk onfoot and mostly done in chairs carried byfour coolies, who shout and call to clearthe way, and when met by another chair push inagainst a shop to allow^ passage—the traveller reachesthe city wall, and by following it comes to the well-known five-storied Pagoda, near which is the best andmost complete view of Canton, with the Flowery Pagodarising out of it, whilst here and there one sees thosesquare tower-like buildings, the pawnshops. And alovely view it is ! Looking over this one cannot quitethink of the overcrowding, the squalor, the dirt, whichexists below; here we look among trees over the roofsof temples, with Gods sky above, and nothing butbrilliant sunlight and beauty around. I
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