IN AND AROUND SAN FRANCISCO. 



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Thirty years ago a description of the Chinese in San Fran- 

 cisco, their habits, customs and dress, would have made inter- 

 esting reading ; but now, with thousands in our Eastern towns, 

 the case is different. Still I may be excused for saying some- 

 thing about that much-abused race. Shuffling along the 

 streets with their odd countenances and dress, they made a 

 great impression on me. Then as now they were looked upon 



Mission Dolores as it is now. 



(From a Photograph by Faber.) 



as nuisances, chiefly because they lived on little and were 

 willing to work for low wages. They had been badly abused, 

 cheated, beaten, murdered. They were game for " hoodlums " 

 and people who called themselves respectable. I heard an 

 apparently fair man say that once when out of funds in the 

 mining regions, he sat on the roadside waiting for a China- 

 man to come along that he might rob him ! He thought no 



