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Sailors ! you are invited to try this shop, where 

 you will find honest dealing, and where you can 

 have ready made coffee and tea, but no samshoo." 

 The rooms, for this purpose, were very neat, 

 with small couches for honest and sober Jack to 

 recline upon, some pamphlets and tracts to 

 amuse his mind as he sipped the decoction of 

 the Indian berry ; the shop contained straw 

 hats, various portraits, and coarse articles of 

 Chinese manufacture, tempting him to purchase 

 for his friends and acquaintances at home ; and 

 the owner appeared to be an intelligent man. 

 Eatables are seen carried about the streets in 

 great numbers, and of all descriptions. Dogs, 

 cats, rats, living and dead ; with fowls, ducks, 

 and other kinds of poultry, as well as living eels, 

 carp, &c. in buckets of water : the latter are fed 

 and fattened in stews, and taken out for sale 

 when considered in a sufficiently prime state ; the 

 fresh water fish are very insipid in taste. 



Every thing living or dead, organic or inor- 

 ganic, is sold by weight in this celestial coun- 

 try, whether it be fruit or ballast stones, oil or 

 vegetables, living dogs or pigs, cats or poultry, 

 they are all purchased by the catty. The dogs 

 and pussies are highly esteemed by the Chinese, 

 who convert them into delicious (according to 

 their organs of taste) bow-wow soup, and rich 



