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THE PEOPLE OF TIEN-TSIN. 
p. XX. 
CHAPTER XX. 
ie people of Tien-tsin — Visit to a gentleman’s house — Reception — 
Street beggars — Pe gging musicians — Civil hospital established 
by the English — Dr. Lamprey’s report — Chinese poorhouse — 
Fat beggars — Climate and temperature — Dust-storms — Remark- 
able size of natural productions — Large men and horses — Shantung 
fowls — Gigantic millet, oily grain, and egg-apples — Jute — 
Vegetables in cultivation — Imperial granaries — Use of millet and 
jute stems — Foreign trade — New settlement for foreign merchants 
— The future of Tien-tsin as a centre of trade. 
The people in Tien-tsin and in the country around 
it are quiet and inoffensive, and particularly civil 
and polite to foreigners. Our late intercourse with 
them has been very different from that of former 
days, when the dispute was about the performance 
of the ko-tou to the Emperor, and when we were 
only represented by an ambassador and his 
attendants. This time we had visited them with 
an army ; we had driven the “ Son of Heaven ” 
himself into Tartary, and had sacked and burned 
his summer palace. Having received a good flog- 
ging, these children had now become very good 
boys ; and if they did not love us, which we could 
scarcely expect, we were certainly feared and 
respected. But up to the present time they have 
not the same confidence in us as their countrymen 
