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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 thesoutheast angle of the city wall. This isused onca every three years at the competi-tive examinations. Here, ranged in longrows, are 14,000 cells, each 3£ by 6 feet,where the candidates are isolated duringthe examination, being allowed only writ-ing material to compose their theses. Oalyfive months ago all these cells were occu-pied. It was quite dark before we finished cur 120 lasl day>s sight-Beeing in Canton. Theshops 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 CHarmioe, I felt that I had leftbehind the dark, hideous barbarism ot theEast, and, almost by enchantment, hadreached the bright and cheei ful civilizationof the nineteenth century. W. P. F.
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NUMBER EIGHTEEN. Steamer Life in the Tropics - Arrivalat Singapore—A Boat Ride by Moon-light—Chinese Festival—An EnglishToddy Sbop—Population and Climateof Singapore—Character of the Ma-lays—The Creese-Running a Muck-Nature so Lavish that Mankind De-generates— Piciurerque Costumes—TheGharry and its Driver—A MorningRide—The Asiatic Gardens—FanPalms — 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 upona dangerous rock in the center of this greathighway of commerce from Europe toChina. We hope to reach Singapore befoxedark, and the engineer crowdj on steamand every stitch of canvass is spread to thefair

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