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WANDERINGS IN CHINA. 
Chap. IX. 
CHAPTER IX. 
City of Chang-shan and its Trade — Land-journey — My Chair and 
Chair-bearers — Description of the Road — Trains of Tea Coolies 
— Roadside Inns — Boundary of two Provinces — Dinner at a 
Chinese Inn — Value of the Chopsticks — Adventure wdth two 
Canton Men — City of Yuk-shan — Its Trade and Importance — 
Quan-sin-foo — My Servant speculates in Grass-cloth — A Chinese 
Test of Respectability — Description of the Country and its Pro- 
ductions — Arrive at the Town of Hokow. 
Chang-shan is a city of the third class, and is said to 
be 140 le from Chu-chu-foo. Judging from the popula- 
tion of other towns in China, I estimated the population 
of this place at from twenty to thirty thousand. It is 
built at the base of a hill about a mile from the river, 
but its suburbs extend down to the water s edge. The 
streets are narrow, and the shops have a mean appear- 
ance when compared with those of Hang-chow-foo or 
Ning-po. It has no trade of its own, but, as it is situated 
on the principal road which leads from the towns on the 
coast to the great black-tea country of Fokien, to the 
large towns of Yuk-shan, Quan-sin-foo, Hokow, to the 
Poyang Lake, and even to Canton, it is necessarily a 
place of considerable importance. Hence the town is full 
of hongs, inns, tea-shops, and warehouses, for the accom- 
modation of travellers, coolies, and merchandise, the 
latter being chiefly the black teas of Fokien and 
Moning. 
