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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The stranger is struck with the peculiar aspect of the place, when on one side, in proximity to low, dingy, Chinese houses, buildings of European structure rise to the height of three or four stories, while on the other, the river is densely populous with the inhabited boats. The foreigners term their residences and places of business factories, but the natives designate them as Hongs, which is the usual Chinese word for a commercial establishment or warehouse. Although there are but few of the larger or public buildings in the foreign quarter, which is but a suburb of the city, there are all the ordinary varieties of streets, houses, and bazaars. Foreigners generally confine their visits to that part adjacent to the garden before mentioned, through which Old and New China streets run. The only hotel in the place, frequented by Europeans and Americans, is near the latter street, and is quite inferior. It is (as has been intimated)
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CANTON. 161 the hospitable practice of the foreign merchants to invite strangers to theirprincely establishments, where a generous profusion and a warm welcome areextended to the visitor. In addition to Old and New China streets, thereis, hard by, a narrow, filthy alley, not inappropriately called Hog lane, andfilled with the most abandoned portion of the people, who minister to thevicious appetites of the foreign sailors, supplying them with wretched grogand other dangerous stimulants. There are no drives or walks leading directly into the country from theforeign quarter; the residents are, therefore, limited to the river, where, inthe evening, they exercise themselves in rowing their swift little boats. Onthe opposite side of the river, however, on the island of Honan, there is awalk, extending a mile or more, to a Buddhist temple; but there is littlethat is attractive in the surrounding country, and nothing peculiar aboutthe temple, which is similar to the other joss houses. On a v

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