The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither By Isabella L. Bird

























 -  The streets of this foreign kernel
of Canton are narrow and dirty, with mean, low houses with tiled roofs
nearly - Page 68
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The Streets Of This Foreign Kernel Of Canton Are Narrow And Dirty, With Mean, Low Houses With Tiled Roofs Nearly Flat, And Small Courtyards, More Like The Houses Of Western Than Eastern Asia.

These Tartars do not differ much in physiognomy from the Chinese.

They are somewhat uglier, their stature is shorter, and the women always wear three rings in their ears. I saw more women in a single street in one day in the Tartar city than I have seen altogether in the rest of Canton.

The view from that corner of the wall (to my thinking) is beautiful, the flaming red pagoda with its many roofs; the singularly picturesque ancient gray wall, all ups and downs, watch-towers, and strongholds, the Tartar city below, with the "flowery pagoda," the mosques, the bright foliage of the banyan, and the feathery grace of the bamboo; outside the wall the White-Cloud hills, and nearer ranges burrowed everywhere for the dead, their red and pink and orange hues harmonized by a thin blue veil, softening without obscuring, all lying in the glory of the tropic winter noon-light without heat, color without glare. Vanish all memories of grays and pale greens before this vividness, this wealth of light and color! Color is at once music and vitality, and after long deprivation I revel in it. This wall is a fine old structure, about twenty feet wide and as many high, with a broad pavement on which to walk, and a high platform on the outside, with a battlement pierced for marksmen.

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