86 CHINESE SHOPS. 



occurs, which certainly cannot be regarded as 

 conducive to health, but, on the contrary, must 

 prove highly detrimental : from the little ill- 

 effects experienced from this by the residents, all 

 that can be said on the subject is, that they pro- 

 bably get habituated to the frequent vicissitudes. 

 There are two broad paved streets,* filled with 

 shops, in which every description of manu- 

 factured articles, both after European and China 

 patterns, can be purchased. Here are contained 

 a profusion of specimens of the arts, more parti- 

 cularly those of ivory, tortoiseshell, and lac- 

 quered ware,t tempting to the visitor, and which 

 soon cause him to return from Canton very de- 

 ficient in the dollars he had brought with him. 



In front of one of the shops was a lacquered 

 board, upon which, in golden letters, was the 

 following attraction for Jack, who may be acci- 

 dentally rolling by the shop : — " The Sailor's 

 Coffee Shop, Chan Lung, No. 10, New China 

 Street, where all kinds of silks and teas are 

 sold, and goods of every description for seamen. 



* Named Old and New China Streets. 



-j- There is another place much frequented by European 

 visitors, called " Carpenter Square," which is confined for the 

 most part to upholsterers, trunkmakers, &c. Here the 

 camphor wood trunks are purchased, the majority of which, 

 sold to strangers as such, are merely made from common 

 wood, rubbed over with camphorated oil. 



