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the liquor so well that they draiLk till they were 
very merry/’ 
One trait in their character, which is far from 
recommending them to strangers visiting their 
shores, is their extreme rudeness. On more than 
one occasion, my gentle-mannered companion, a 
little man with roundish eyes, and myself, whose 
nose is not a snub, were surrounded by a rough but 
not unfriendly mob, who treated us in a most un- 
ceremonious manner. Our personal peculiarities 
seemed to afford them much amusement, reminding 
us of a passage in Hue’s China, when the tall man 
Hue, and the short man Gabet, were, at Yao- 
tchang, submitted to a similar scrutiny. One of 
these inquisitive critics remarked, “ The little devil 
has very large eyes, and the tall one a very pointed 
nose.” In a similar way our hair and skin were 
freely commented upon; the fineness of the one 
and the smoothness of the other being greatly ad- 
mired. Our persons and garments were subjected 
to the most minute examination, conducted in a 
manner at once familiar and rude. The fashion 
