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Title: The sea (microform) : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism
Identifier: cihm_17845 (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Whymper, Frederick, b. 1838
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan
Publisher: London; New York : Cassel, Petter, Galpin
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i:i 44 THE SEA. and pines. One may go on foot from one end of Hong Kong to the other, and yet always be in the shade. No one dreams of walking. Nothing is to be seen but chairs or palanquins. The coolies, their heads sheltered by enormous straw hats, carry you at a rattling pace. Nothing can be more delicious than a night promenade in an open sedan-chair. In the lower part of the town the scene is most animated and busy; officers and soldiers in red uniforms and rvh swarthy complexions (Sepoys), Parsees, Hindoos, Chinese, Malays, European ladies
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THE CTTBTOM HUV8E, liHANOHAI. in elegant toilets, and men and women with yellowish skins, dressed like Europeans (half- caste Portuguese). Tlie higher you climb the quieter you find it. Insensibly the town turns into country. Scramble up still a little higher, and you are in the middle of rocks, bare of trees, but covered with odoriferous shrubs, and traversed by a fine macadamised road, with glimpses of views here and there of marvellous beauty." * Shanghai, as another leading port, would naturally be visited by the tourist of leisure, and it affords a wonderful example of English enterprise. It is by nature the port of Suchow, ninety miles up the great Yang-tse-Kiang river. Near the city its flat, green, cultivated • llvibner.

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  • bookyear:1880
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Whymper_Frederick_b_1838
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Ocean
  • booksubject:Aventures_et_aventuriers
  • booksubject:Voyages
  • booksubject:Oc_an
  • bookpublisher:London_New_York_Cassel_Petter_Galpin
  • bookcontributor:Canadiana_org
  • booksponsor:University_of_Alberta_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:58
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