Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats; or, An overland journey from China towards India . and bowed they allgot up and simultaneously returned my bow, testifying thegreatest respect. During the day we passed a giotesque but pretty stonebridge, built in the shape of a dragon, the legs composingthe arch thirty feet in diameter, and the roadw^ay carriedalong his back, while the wings rose as parapets on eitherside. In the evening we stopped at the walled city Nin-cheang-foo, on the right bank of the Liu Kiang. There wasan appearance of busy traffic about this city, numbers of
Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats; or, An overland journey from China towards India . and bowed they allgot up and simultaneously returned my bow, testifying thegreatest respect. During the day we passed a giotesque but pretty stonebridge, built in the shape of a dragon, the legs composingthe arch thirty feet in diameter, and the roadw^ay carriedalong his back, while the wings rose as parapets on eitherside. In the evening we stopped at the walled city Nin-cheang-foo, on the right bank of the Liu Kiang. There wasan appearance of busy traffic about this city, numbers oflarge Chung Ching junks were lying in the river loadingsugar and salt, the latter article being made in large quan-tities from salt wells on either bank of the river. This cityabounded in large and handsome shops, and coal yards werevery numerous. It is also a great market for ginger and 144 TEAYELS OF A PIONEER OF COMMERCE. [Ch. V. glue, which is exported to every part of the empire. I ob-served large quantities made up in strips three or four feetlong, and several inches wide, exposed for sale in nearly. Tin; BRIDGE. every shop. At Nin-cheang-foo we experienced greatdifficulty in passing the chen brought from Chung Ching,indeed the people absolutely refused to take them exceptat a discount of twenty-five per cent., at which we wereobliged to exchange all our cash, as beyond this point theChung Ching chen would not pass.* I made a great effort this evening to get a bath; the land-lord of the hotel, however, expressed an opinion on the re-quest which rather startled me. On being informed thatI wished to wash my body, he laughed at what he fanciedwas a joke; but as I insisted on having water, he repliedthat it really could not be done in my room, and as for going* See Appendix I. Czi. v.] A GEEAT SOLDIEE. 145 outside where the coolies were washing, of course a man ofmy position could not do that; and, moreover, a gentlemanlike myself who never did any hard work ought not
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