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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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lng rebellion. We visited the Examination Halls at the southeast angle of the city wall. This isused onca every three years at the competi-tive examinations. Here, ranged in long rows, are 14,000 cells, each 3 by 6 feet,where the candidates are isolated during the examination, being allowed only writing material to compose their theses. Only five months ago all these cells were occupied. It was quite dark before we finished cur 120 lasl day>s sight-Beeing in Canton. The shops were all shut, and euch a thifig as astreet lamp is unknown in China. Ourcoolies groped their way through the darkstreets, compelling the porters to opensome of the heavily barred wooden gates,which are closed at night to cut cff com •munication between the different wards. When at last I reached my hospitable quar-ters at Charmine, I felt that I had left behind the dark, hideous barbarism ot the East, and, almost by enchantment, had reached the bright and cheerful civilization of the nineteenth century. W. P. F.
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NUMBER EIGHTEEN. Steamer Life in the Tropics - Arrival at Singapore—A Boat Ride by Moon-light—Chinese Festival—An English Toddy Sbop—Population and Climateof Singapore—Character of the Malays—The Creese-Running a Muck-Nature so Lavish that Mankind De-generates— Piciurerque Costumes—TheGharry and its Driver—A MorningRide—The Asiatic Gardens—Fan Palms — Victoria Regias — TropicalVegetation—A Chinese Millionaire—A Courteous Gentleman—The Wham-poa Garden. Singapore, February 5,1871.After Bix days of steamer life in thetropici, with all its stifl ng annoyancesbelow deck, and a vertical sun temperedonly by an awning above, at noon to dsywe enter the straits of Malacca, 1,400 milesfrom Hong Kong, and steam past a lighthouse, a hundred feet in height, built upon a dangerous rock in the center of this great highway of commerce from Europe to China. We hope to reach Singapore before dark, and the engineer crowds on steam and every stitch of canvass is spread to the fair

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