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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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that part of Canton towhich Europeans have access, is not, I imagine, to be foundanywhere else in the world. I firmly believe that, from thehighest to the lowest, they are thieves, to a man. If you gointo a booth to make a purchase, unless you keep your eyesand /lauds constantly upon the article you desire to buy, itwill be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and an inferiorimitation substituted in its place. This too, after asking you,at the beginning of your trade, at least thrice the price theyintend to take, or expect to get. Aside from the grosserforms of vice, there is no kind of low rascality which theinhabitants are not perfect in — no species of deception ortrickery in which they are not adepts. It is no wonder thatsailors, who come in contact only with these lower classes ofChinese, learn to heartily hate and despise them. Canton, Ibelieve, bears an ill name, even among the Chinese themselves,as being the general rendezvous of all the bad characters inthe Celestial Empire.
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CHAPTER XVIII. Ship in a —1 -taking—The Lmum \ —J ner of treating them—Long calm—Su La trs—X laire to remit —Arrival U P. ri Louis. T T POX air return to Whampoa. we were informedV-^ our shipmates th.it the . S rch ba red to ship two ea-amnies and having heard that George andI were ashore, had offered us the vacant plac She was oound to Port Louis, in the Isle : France, and thewere twenty-five rupees per month. I proposed, at once, to ship, as I had been wishing tomake a trip in lah* But George, who had been in Port Louis, and knew somewhat of it. declared that henot going there, to remain ashore till half si and then have to ship in a British vessel to ^o t< England. He wouldwait for a ship, in Macao or Whampoa. even if he had to stopashore there a month. This did not suit me. I ag however, to . r an- other chance for us two. which would - a my chum better. But there was at that time no other be found, except in one or two vessels, bound round theand in those neither

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