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hats : the shaven face and pigtail so typifying the 
class that to note a difference between San Shing or 
Wang Heng is sometimes most embarrassing. The 
dress of the women differs but little from that of the 
men. The curious, built-up style the married ladies 
have of wearing their hair gives them a strange ap- 
pearance ; while the younger lasses allow theirs to 
hang down their back in tresses, or wear it bound 
tightly over their foreheads, and secured au chignon . 
Their cheeks are tinted bright pink, and with their 
neat little feet, and clean and loose clothing, they 
make a very pretty picture. By far the most con» 
spicuous of the various kinds of people, and those 
which most attract the stranger’s attention, are the 
Chinese, although great numbers of other nationalities 
are to be seen ; and, when once the business of the 
day has begun, the din and traffic are enormous ; for 
crowds of men, of all creeds and colours, Jew, pagan, 
and Christian, Buddhist and Parsee, Chinese, Japanese, 
and European, fill the streets, while gangs of coolies 
chant to keep step, as they press on beneath their 
heavy burdens. The merchants, whose places of 
. business lie along the Queen’s Road, are so similar 
in appearance that a description of one will apply to 
all. He is generally a fat, round-faced man, with an 
important and business-like look, wearing the same 
style of clothing as the meanest coolie (but of finer ma- 
terial), and is always clean and neat, and his long tail, 
tipped with red or blue silk, hangs down to his heels. 
