Cuap. XIII.] BATHS FOR TUE MILLION. 263 
Tn the afternoon and evening this establishment 
is crowded with visitors, and on entering the bath 
room, the first impression is almost insupportable ; 
the hot steam or vapour meets you at the door, 
filling the eyes and ears, and causing perspiration 
to run from every pore of the body; it almost 
darkens the place, and the Chinamen seen in this 
imperfect light, with their brown skins and long 
tails, sporting amongst the water, render the scene 
a most ludicrous one to an Englishman. 
Those visitors who use the common room pay 
only six copper cash; the others pay eighteen, but 
they have in addition a cup of tea and a pipe of 
tobacco from the proprietors. I may mention that 
one hundred copper cash amount to about 4$d. of 
our money; so that the first class enjoy a hot 
water bath for about one farthing! and the other a 
bath, a private room, a cup of tea, and a pipe of 
tobacco for something less than one penny! 
