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that's it; 



coin-is, one behind another, and in the last are 

 the apartments of the women and the maidenst. 

 The whole of one side of the apartmeuts is 

 usually occupied by windows, in which either 

 talc, painted in various designs, a sort of trans- 

 parent shell, or white and coloured paper, is 

 used instead of glass. The shops and bazaars, 



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15, 16, are open. Their fronts are supported 

 by pilastres, ornamented with inscriptions upon 

 painted and varnished boards, and the mix- 

 ture of colours produces a gaudy effect. 



Chinese women, 18, are gene- 

 rally lame, from the habit of com- 



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pressing their feet by bandages, 

 entertaining the idea that very 

 small feet are beautiful. Upon 

 these small feet they wear pretty 

 little embroidered boots. Such is 

 not the case, however, with the 

 peasant women, 20, who walk with- 

 out shoes, and have what, in Eng- 

 land, we should call a graceful 

 step, but which, by the genteel 

 Chinese, would be considered ex- 

 cessively vulgar. The men, 19, 



have black, stiff, and strong hair 

 shaved off in front, but, at the 

 back, twisted and converted into 

 a pig -tail. 



Between the latitudes 30° and 

 40°, to the north-east of China, 

 will be found an extensive penin- 

 sula, which divides the Yellow 

 Sea and the Japan Sea. This 

 peninsula is called Corea, and is 

 inhabited by a people who are 

 even more jealous of strangers 

 than the Japanese and Chinese. 

 The Coreans, 1, are superior in 



strength and stature to the Chi- 

 nese, but are inferior to them in 

 mental energy and capacity. 

 They wear hats, 1, of very curi- 

 ous make, having small crowns, 

 and broad brims, 6; they have 

 also other hats, 2, made of a kind 

 of coarse basket-work. Their 

 garments are of cotton or silk, 

 loose and flowing, with large 

 sleeves, 3 ; their trowsers, 4, are 

 gathered in and tied at the 

 ankles, and they wear a curious 

 description of sandal-shoe, 5. 



Between the latitudes 5° and 

 20°, are the Philippine Islands, 

 comprising an extensive Spanish 

 colony, of which Manilla is the 



