. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . Chapter^ v. CONCERNING EATING. NE of the first thingsa person has to do inlanding on a foreignshore is to look out forsomething to eat anddrink, and especiallyif he conies off alongvoyage, and has hadlittle for some timebut hard junk, and harder biscuits. Fortunately for some of us who had never been to China before, some of our shipmates knew all about the manner of living, and so we were prepared to know what to eat, drink, and avoid. We did not expect, on landing at Canton, to have roast beef and plum pudding,
. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . Chapter^ v. CONCERNING EATING. NE of the first thingsa person has to do inlanding on a foreignshore is to look out forsomething to eat anddrink, and especiallyif he conies off alongvoyage, and has hadlittle for some timebut hard junk, and harder biscuits. Fortunately for some of us who had never been to China before, some of our shipmates knew all about the manner of living, and so we were prepared to know what to eat, drink, and avoid. We did not expect, on landing at Canton, to have roast beef and plum pudding, and so we did not order. CONCERNING EATING. 61 any ; but we just patronized the first itinerant cook-shop we met with. The spirited proprietor had pitchedat the corner of a street, and had lit his lanterns, for itwas evening; and he was engaged in getting up hischarcoal fire by blowing through a bamboo tube.
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